Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale

 

Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale

The Knight’s Tale condenses the idealistic and thematic romance of courtly affection. This particular thematic instability in lives portrayed pleasures and pains (Geoffrey & Spearing, 2016). Geoffrey Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale is about Palamon and Arcite who were captured by Theseus. They were confined in a tower and spend their time looking out of the window. One day they fell in love with the queen’s younger sister (Emilye) and fight over it. Therefore, they agreed on pointless fighting in prison and marry after the escape. Arcite escaped from the tower, but Palamon was spender alone. Later, these two knights have to fight in a tournament till death arranged by Theseus. Arcite appeared as a winner but suffered a deadly wound. During his last breaths, he asked Palamon to marry her (Geoffrey, 2000). The era in which Chaucer presented this transition was an incongruous time of medieval and renaissance (Klitgard, 1995). Chaucer projected the middle ages of these two. He symbolized the fuller scenario of the fourteenth century’s societal life (Patterson, 1991; Turner, 1974). At that age, Knights have to take tasks from lords and fought to achieve them. All the Knights served their knights as a significant weapon in the feudal system.

References:

Chaucer, Geoffrey & Spearing, A. C. (2016). The Knight’s Tale. Cambridge University Press, ISBN:9781316615584

 Ebbe, Klitgard (1995). Chaucer's Narrative Voice in The Knight's Tale. Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen. Denmark, ISBN: 87-7289-341-9

Turner F. (1974).  A Structuralist Analysis of the "Knight's Tale". The Chaucer Review Vol. 8, No. 4 (Spring, 1974), pp. 279-296, Penn State University Press

Chaucer, Geoffrey (2000). The Canterbury Tales Complete. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 5-48.

Patterson, Lee (1991). "Chaucer and the Subject of History". University of Wisconsin Press, 175-179.