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Need help with The Knight’s Tale in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales? Check out our revolutionary side-by-side summary and analysis.
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The Knight’s Tale is a romance that encapsulates the themes, motifs, and ideals of courtly love: love is like an illness that can change the lover’s physical appearance, the lover risks death to win favor with his lady, and he is inspired to utter eloquent poetic complaints.
- PREFACE.
- INTRODUCTION.
- ii INTRODUCTION
- INTRODUCTION iii
- iv INTRODUCTION
- INTRODUCTION vii
- x INTRODUCTION
- INTRODUCTION xi
- xii INTRODUCTION
- INTRODUCTION xiii
- INTRODUCTION xix
- INTRODUCTION xxiii
- INTRODUCTION xxv
- INTRODUCTION xxvii
- 84 KNIGHT'S TALE
- ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHAUCER'S GRAMMAR FROM THE "KNIGHT'S TALE."
- APPENDIX.
- APPENDIX
IN my edition of the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales I paid especial attention to annotating those of its allusions which touch on English life in the i4th century. In these notes and introduction to the Knight's Tale I have tried to illustrate Chaucer's methods as a story teller at a particularly int...
§ i. THE tale of the contention of Palamon and Arcite for the hand of the fair Emily is undisguisedly a love story, and that, despite the death and burial of one of the heroes, by no means a tragic one. It is, moreover, notwithstanding one or two classical touches, essentially medieval in tone and t...
to write about " old unhappy far off things " which poets in what seems to us the world's youth felt no less than those of our own day. Unhappy is, indeed, too weak a word to apply to that terrible tale of Thebes on to which this delightful love-story had been tacked by Boccaccio, whom Chaucer fol...
but he is saved by a shepherd, brought up at the court of Corinth, and one day meeting his father accidentally, slays him in a wayside quarrel, without knowing who he is. Then he comes to Thebes, which he rescues from the ravages of the Sphinx, the monster who had put to every passer-by the riddle ...
the point of view of Ariadne, in his Legend of Good TM,v Women. In the present story (save for a passing allusion to Theseus' friend Pirithous, whom he helped in an unsuccessful attempt to deprive Hades of its queen Persephone) we hear only of the expedition against the Amazons and their queen Hippolyta...
to fight with him. This be accomplishes with the assistance of Pamphilo, by changing clothes with Alimento, a physician. He goes armed to the wood in quest of Arcita, whom he finds sleep ing. At first, they are very civil and friendly to each other. Then Palemone calls upon Arcita to renounce his pre...
prince Theseus 'toward Athenes in his wey ridinge,' and professes that he will contrive ' slyly ' and concisely to ' bring in ' Anelida and Arcyte. To do this he takes us to Thebes, and having introduced Creon to us, drops him almost as abruptly as he had dropped Theseus, and plunges into a story of ...
comments or with the fruit of his reading, and, above all, giving personality and life to every character with whom he concerns himself. When he laid aside Auelida and False Arcyte he took up Filostrato and taught (we may fairly say) by his recent failure, was content in his Troilus and Criseyde to fo...
hypothesis as to this, which shall be noted later, but for the present I would tell my tale right on. — What could be more natural than that, encouraged by what he must have known was his great artistic success in converting the Filostrato into the Troilus, he should at once have determined to follow ...
resemblances to Troilus over the head of an inter mediate poem.1 1 A fourth argument which has occurred to me raises so con troversial a question that I relegate it to a footnote. Towards the end of Troilus (v. 1786-88) Chaucer writes Go, litel book ! Go, litel myn tragedie ! Ther God thy maker yit, ...
his case by suggesting, as if to minimize Chaucer's trouble, that perhaps the hypothetical version was never finished. Inasmuch as the Teseide stanzas in the Troilus relate to the death of Arcyte, the poet's patience seems to have failed him very near the end. Considering, moreover, how admirable are the ...
This little point as to the opening of the Knightes Tale is typical of Chaucer's whole treatment of the Teseide. He is continually abridging, and in almost every incident of the poem, his dramatic instinct en ables him to improve on his original. This heightening of the dramatic interest of the story i...
of arms and armour with him. There is the fine simile of the hunter changing colour as he sets himself to withstand the wild boar's rush, and then Ther was no 'good day,' ne no saluyng, But straight, withouten word or rehersyng, Everich of hem heelpe for to armen other, and they fall to with their w...
Ithe general description of the lists. Thus here again Chaucer shows his sense of the value of swift move ment as we come near a crisis. On the other hand, we may well doubt if he was well advised in overloading the scenes depicted in the temples with so much astrological love, and the doubt may be...
had heard Orpheus sing : ' " We ben overcomen," quod he, " yeve we to Orpheus his wyf to beren hym compaignye : he hath wel y-bought hire by his faire song and his ditee. But we wolen putten a lawe in this and covenaunt in the yifte : that is to seyn that, til he be out of helle, yif he lok...
BY MARY A. TRIMEN, M.A. LOND. Bedford College (for Women), Lond.
CHAUCER'S USE OF THE TESEIDE IN OTHER POEMS I.
And in himself he lough right at the wo Of hem that wepen for his deth so faste, And dampned al our werk, that folwen so The blinde lust the whiche that may not laste, And sholden al our herte on hevene caste. And forth he wente, shortly for to telle Ther-as Merciirie sorted him to dwelle.
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.
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Incensed, Theseus quickly overthrows Creon and restores the Theban dead to the women for ceremonial burying. After the destruction of Creon's forces, booty hunters find two young knights (Palamon and Arcite) who are not quite dead. Theseus decides against executing the knights and instead imprisons them with no hope of ransom.
