![]() ![]() The Teseida has 9,896 lines in twelve books, while "The Knight's Tale" has only 2,250 lines-though it is still one of the longest poems in the Tales. The epic poem Teseida (full title Teseida delle Nozze d’Emilia, or "The Theseid, Concerning the Nuptials of Emily") by Giovanni Boccaccio is the source of the tale, although Chaucer makes many significant diversions from that poem. ![]() The story introduces themes and arguments typically encountered in the literature of knighthood, including courtly love and ethical dilemmas. ![]() ![]() He is accompanied on his pilgrimage by the Squire, his 20-year-old son. Most readers have taken Chaucer's description of him as "a verray, parfit gentil knyght" to be sincere but Terry Jones suggested that this description was ironic, and that Chaucer's readers would have deduced that the Knight was a mercenary. Though the list of campaigns is real, his characterization is idealized. We are told that he has taken part in some fifteen crusades in many countries and also fought for one pagan leader against another. 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" ( Middle English: The Knightes Tale) is the first tale from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. The first page of Knight's Tale in the Ellesmere manuscript ![]()
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