The Two Mayings in Chaucer's "Knight's Tale."

Author / Editor
Mitchell, Edward R.

Title
The Two Mayings in Chaucer's "Knight's Tale."

Published
Modern Language Notes 71.8 (1956): 560-64.

Description
Considers the two "observances" of May ritual in KnT (Emelye's at 1.1041-45 and Arcite's at 1491-1512), neither found in Boccaccio's "Teseide," identifying various French analogues that may have inspired Chaucer, while noting that he may also have witnessed such activities himself.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations