"Joye after wo" in the "Knight's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Pratt, Robert A.
"Joye after wo" in the "Knight's Tale."
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 57.3 (1958): 416-23.
- Description
- Traces the unifying theme of joy after woe in KnT, "brought about both by the plot and by Boethian Destiny," focusing on Arcite's achievement of "welfare" and Palamon's "wele" after both start in sorrow. Theseus similarly replaces Egeus's saturnine sorrow with Jupiter's joy
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale