“The Duel in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale” is a paper which I wrote in Medieval English Literature. Its content focuses on the duel between Arcite and Palamon. I argue that the duel depicted in The Knight’s Tale does not seem to follow a proper etiquette, and that the narrator (the knight who tells the tale) points this out by having Duke Theseus interrupt Arcite and Palamon. The termination of the duel in The Knight’s Tale is, therefore, a means to draw attention to a kind of misbehavior on Arcite and Palamon’s part.

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