Looking back : Shakespeare's indebtedness to Chaucer and the representations of Chivalry in King Richard II, The Two Noble Kinsmen, and The Knight's Tale

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Han, Cheryl Suling
• مؤلفون آخرون: Wang Chee Keng, John
• التنسيق: Theses and Dissertations
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2013
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Humanities; DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/54957
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

This paper considers the continuity—rather than a rupture—between the Middle Ages and the early modern period by exploring Shakespeare’s indebtedness to Chaucer through the appropriation of The Knight’s Tale in The Two Noble Kinsmen. This paper begins with an examination of chivalry in Richard II, d...