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

• Main Author: Han, Cheryl Suling
• Other Authors: Wang Chee Keng, John
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities; DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/54957
• Institution: 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...