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"The Knight's Tale" (Middle English: The Knightes Tale) is the first tale from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. The Knight is described by Chaucer in the " General Prologue " as the person of highest social standing amongst the pilgrims, though his manners and clothes are unpretentious.
The Knight's Tale. Iamque domos patrias, Sithice post aspera gentis prelia,laurigero, etc.[ And now (Theseus drawing nigh his) native land in laurelled car after battling with the Scithian folk, etc.]
The Knight’s tale, as befitting a man of his rank and chivalric reputation, is a noble romance about the world of chivalry: the code of nobility to which knights were expected to adhere. However, neither of the tale’s two male leads, Palamon and Arcite, live up to the chivalric ideal.
Short Summary: Theseus, duke of Athens, returning with Ypolita from his conquest of the Amazons, turns aside to defeat Creon, the tyrant of Thebes, who has unjustly refused burial for his victims. Among the wounded are Palamon and Arcite, young Thebans of royal blood. Theseus condemns them to perpetual imprisonment.
The Knight’s Tale, one of the 24 stories in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. This chivalric romance was based on Giovanni Boccaccio’s Teseida, and though it was not originally written as part of the Canterbury collection, Chaucer adapted it to fit the character of the Knight.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Canterbury Tales (The Knight’s Tale) Geoffrey Chaucer. Track 2 on The Canterbury Tales. Featuring. Paul Strohm. Standing at the head of The Canterbury Tales, ‘The Knight’s Tale’...
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In this tale, the Knight (or Chaucer) implies that the lives of men are influenced by what seems to be chance but, in actuality, is a Prime Mover (God) who controls the ostensibly chance occurrences of the world.
