"I am not against your faith yet I continue mine": Virginal Vocation in "The Two Noble Kinsmen."

Description: Compares Emelye of KnT and Emilia of Shakespeare and Fletcher’s "The Two Noble Kinsmen," arguing that Emelye’s desire for a non-patriarchal subjectivity is developed in her literary descendant--that "monastic connotations in Chaucer's depictions of Emelye" adumbrate Emilia's "attempts to carve out a homosocial space for herself," and that this "Catholic resonance within the play" is submerged but not wholly dispelled by prevailing Reformation sensibility that privileges marital chastity over virginity.

Chaucer Subjects: Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Knight and His Tale