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"The Knight's Tale" is the first tale from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. This article is in need of attention. ...
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Canterbury Tales Woodcut 1484 The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse). ...
The "Knight's Tale" is about two knights and close friends, Arcita and Palamon, who are imprisoned by Theseus, duke of Athens. In prison they see and fall in love with the sister of Hippolyta, Emily (Emelye). When they see this beautiful woman, they both instantly fall in love with her. The sense of competition brought about by this love causes them to hate each other. They eventually are released from prison and each try to win Emily over by any means necessary, almost killing each other while doing so. Finally they battle in a tournament over Emily (arranged by Theseus). Palamon prays to make Emily his wife, Emily prays to marry the one that really loves her, and Arcita prays for victory. Arcita wins the battle, but dies before he can claim Emily as his prize, and so Palamon marries her. The story introduces many typical aspects of knighthood such as courtly love and ethical dilemmas. The story is in the form of poetry. The silver Anglia knight, commissioned as a trophy in 1850, intended to represent the Black Prince. ...
Theseus (Greek ) was a legendary king of Athens, son of Aethra, and fathered by Aegeus and Poseidon, with whom Aethra lay in one night (By some accounts, this was presented as a rape). ...
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Teseida delle nozze di Emilia by Giovanni Boccaccio is the source of the tale. "The Knight's Tale", though, is a very loose translation, shortening Boccaccio's 9000 line epic to a little over 2000 lines. Although some of the plot is lost, an undercurrent of philosophy is added by Chaucer, mainly inspired by the Consolation of Philosophy of Boethius which Chaucer had also translated. Giovanni Boccaccio (June 16, 1313 – December 21, 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist in his own right and author of a number of notable works including On Famous Women, the Decameron and his poetry in the vernacular. ...
This early printed book has many hand-painted illustrations depicting Lady Philosophy and scenes of daily life in fifteenth-century Ghent (1485) Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: Consolatio Philosophiae) is a philosophical work by Boethius written in about the year 524 AD. It has been described as the single most important...
Boethius teaching his students (initial in a 1385 Italian manuscript of the Consolation of Philosophy). ...
John Dryden translated this story to a more modern language in the style of his time. Dryden's book is entitled "Palamon and Arcite" and is longer than the original text due to Dryden's own poetic touches. John Dryden John Dryden (August 19 {August 9 O.S.}, 1631 - May 12 {May 1 O.S.}, 1700) was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator and playwright, who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles...
Part of Fables, Ancient and Modern, a modernized translation of one story from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knights Tale written by John Dryden. ...
The Knight and his tale supposedly embody the ideas of chivalry, but Chaucer's Knight, a book by Terry Jones, portrays the knight as a mercenary and far from a gallant, ethical, gentle character (though this theory has been widely disputed by the academic community). The following tale, by the Miller, is a direct antithesis to the Knight's with none of the nobility or heritage of classical mythology, but is instead rollicking, bawdy, comedic and designed to annoy the Knight. Bors Dilemma - he chooses to save a maiden rather than his brother Lionel Chivalry[1] is a term related to the medieval institution of knighthood. ...
Terence Graham Parry Jones (born in Colwyn Bay, Wales, on February 1, 1942) is a British comedian, screenwriter and actor, film director, childrens author, popular historian, political commentator and TV documentary host. ...
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This article is about the second of Chaucers Canterbury Tales. ...
The Two Noble Kinsmen, a play co-written by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, is based on the tale. The Two Noble Kinsmen is a play written in 1613 by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare in collaboration. ...
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John Fletcher (1579-1625) was a Jacobean playwright. ...
The 2001 movie A Knight's Tale, starring Heath Ledger, takes its name from this story, and a fictionalized version of Chaucer appears as a character. At the end of the film, a small joke is made about this poem wherein the fictionalized Chaucer claims that he will put this particular tale into writing, referencing "The Knight's Tale" written by the real Chaucer. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
Heath Andrew Ledger (born April 4, 1979) is an Academy Award-nominated Australian actor. ...
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