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Title: Notes on Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale'
Description: Some varied notes on the popular but complex Knight's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Description: Some varied notes on the popular but complex Knight's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer.
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Tuesday, 28 October 2014
The Knight’s Tale
Key Terms
- Occupatio: drawing attention to something whilst denying that you are doing so
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Context
- Composed before 1386
- Boccaccio - Il Teseida delle Nozze d’Emilia
- Statius: The Thebaid
- Arcite and Palamon cursed because of their lineage leading back to Oedipus
- Chaucer had fought in many wars
Genre
- Chivalric romance of a highly philosophical complexion
- Relationship between epic and history, it is labelled as ‘a nobel storie’ which relates
more directly to history
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- As only Palamon finds happiness within marriage it could be called a Romance
Tragedy
- Boethius invented this concept of the ‘Wheel of Fortune’ which creates a backbone to
this story
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- Secondary to that are fate and freewill and all of this is presented in an ostensibly
pagan universe
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Mainly the two Knights and through
the different parts of the poem
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- Jupiter was often used as a substitute for the Christian God
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Critical Responses
- Thomas Wyatt thought it as good as the Iliad
- Shakespeare was clearly heavily influenced by it, he creates A Midsummer Night’s
Dream and Two Noble Kinsmen
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- Terry Jones was a critic and didn’t highly rate the poem
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- God as the great architect
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Title: Notes on Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale'
Description: Some varied notes on the popular but complex Knight's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Description: Some varied notes on the popular but complex Knight's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer.