Chaucer, Shakespeare, and the Lost Friendship Plays of the Admiral's Men.

Author / Editor
Stretter, Robert.

Title
Chaucer, Shakespeare, and the Lost Friendship Plays of the Admiral's Men.

Published
Comparative Drama 55 (2021): 331-54.

Description
Identifies complex intertextual relations among KnT, the story of Amis and Amiloun, Shakespeare and Fletcher's "Two Noble Kinsmen." and archival references to two lost Tudor plays, "Palamon and Arcite" and "Alexander and Lodowick, "exploring differences between motifs of medieval sworn brotherhood and humanist classical friendship. In this light, considers "The Two Noble Kinsmen" as a critique of male-friendship plays performed by the Admiral's Men.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Knight and His Tale