Shakespeare's Romantic Innocents and the Misappropriation of the Romance Past

Richard Hillman (1)

1 CESR - Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance UMR 7323

Studies the dramatic adaptation by Shakespeare and Fletcher, The Two Noble Kinsmen, in relation to its original, Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, so as to privilege an ironic reading of medieval chivalric values.

En étudiant la pièce The Two Noble Kinsmen de Shakespeare et Fletcher par rapport à sa source, The Knight's Tale de Chaucer, trouve que les dramaturges ont mis les valeurs médiévales chevaleresques du dernier sous une lumière ironique.

Mots clés: Shakespeare; Fletcher; The Two Noble Kinsmen; Chaucer; The Knight's Tale

Domaines: Littératures

Richard Hillman. Shakespeare's Romantic Innocents and the Misappropriation of the Romance Past: The Case of The Two Noble Kinsmen. Shakespeare Survey: An Annual Survey of Shakespeare Studies and Production, 1991, 43, pp.69-79. ⟨halshs-00010230⟩