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Article: Representing rebellion: the ending of Chaucer's Knight's Tale and the castration of Saturn (1).(Critical Essay)
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- Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
- Article date:
- August 6, 2002
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ABSTRACT
Previous scholars of the Knight's Tale have expressed some difficulty when pagan Theseus, at the end, strangely attributes authority for the resolution of the dramatic conflict among Palamon, Arcite, and Emelye to the "First Mover," Jupiter, who is equivocal with the One God (2987). Further, in terms of the narrative order it appears that the first and fourth petitions to the gods -- of Palamon to Venus, goddess of love, and of Venus to her father, Saturn -- have been displaced by the second and third petitions, of Arcite to Mars, god of war, and of Emelye to Diana, the moon (and by what might be termed the fifth, of Theseus to Jupiter at the end). Why ...
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