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Plot. At a jousting tournament in 14th-century Europe, squires William Thatcher, Roland, and Wat discover that their master, Sir Ector, has died. With one more pass, he could have won the tournament. Destitute, William wears Sir Ector's armour to impersonate him, taking the prize.
Synopsis. Emilia in the rose garden from Boccaccio 's Teseida, French, c. 1460. Two cousins and knights, Palamon and Arcite, are captured and imprisoned by Theseus, duke of Athens, after being found unconscious following his battle against Creon.
The Knight’s tale, as befitting a man of his rank and chivalric reputation, is a noble romance about the world of chivalry: the code of nobility to which knights were expected to adhere. However, neither of the tale’s two male leads, Palamon and Arcite, live up to the chivalric ideal.
The Knight’s Tale, one of the 24 stories in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. This chivalric romance was based on Giovanni Boccaccio’s Teseida, and though it was not originally written as part of the Canterbury collection, Chaucer adapted it to fit the character of the Knight.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The ‘Knight’s Tale’ is based on the Teseida by the Italian poet Boccaccio and is also influenced by other texts including Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy. Both Chaucer’s writing and Agbabi’s emerge from multiple cultures, languages, and histories.
Short Summary: Theseus, duke of Athens, returning with Ypolita from his conquest of the Amazons, turns aside to defeat Creon, the tyrant of Thebes, who has unjustly refused burial for his victims. Among the wounded are Palamon and Arcite, young Thebans of royal blood. Theseus condemns them to perpetual imprisonment.
Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Knight’s Tale” is the first actual tale in the unfinished Canterbury Tales, a sequence of stories told by different members of a pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral in...
