"Joye after wo" in the "Knight's Tale."

Author / Editor
Pratt, Robert A.

Title
"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