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FURTHER READING

Donaldson, E. Talbot. "Love, War, and the Cost of Winning: The Knight's Tale and The Two Noble Kinsmen." In The Swan at the Well: Shakespeare Reading Chaucer, pp. 50-73. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.

Examines the relationship between The Knight's Tale and The Two Noble Kinsmen, noting that The Two Noble Kinsmen is "very unpleasant" in that Shakespeare fully expresses the "dark side" he saw in Chaucer's tale.

Finkelpearl, Philip J. "Two Distincts, Division None: Shakespeare and Fletcher's The Two Noble Kinsmen of 1613." In Elizabethan Theater: Essays in Honor of S. Schoenbaum, edited by R. B. Parker and S. P. Zitner, pp. 184-99. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1996.

Analyzes the way in which The Two Noble Kinsmen can be interpreted in relation to contemporary events of the same year, such as the marriage of...

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1. Introduction
2. Social Class
3. Relation To Chaucer's The Knights Tale
4. The Subplot
5. Further Reading
6. Copyright