Chaucer and the "Gawain"-Poet: A Conjecture.
- Author / Editor
- Chapman, Coolidge Otis.
Chaucer and the "Gawain"-Poet: A Conjecture.
- Published
- Modern Language Notes 68, no. 8 (1953): 521-24.
- Description
- Suggests that Chaucer "modeled the narrative in the first part of" SqT "upon the narrative in the first part" of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Identifies nine "points of agreement between the two romances"--similarities in "order of events," the "conduct of the characters," along with Chaucer's Arthurian references, and reference to Troy.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Squire and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations