Chaucer's Nameless Knight.
- Author / Editor
- Townsend, Francis G.
Chaucer's Nameless Knight.
- Published
- Modern Language Review 49 (1954): 1-4.
- Description
- Compares and contrasts the rapist-knight of WBT with his analogous protagonist in John Gower's "Tale of Florent," arguing that Chaucer's knight "emerges as a very clear and a very strong character"--the "kind of young fellow who can commit rape and still be the darling of the ladies," and one who fits well the Wife of Bath's "vision of masculine perfection" established in WBP.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations