β Katie MacAlister
π Fiction
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2008
π Suma de Letras
π Spanish
β 194 KB
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The Two Noble Kinsmen
β Scribed by William Shakespeare
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 3 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1501150006
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β¦ Synopsis
Written by Shakespeare and John Fletcher, this play tells the familiar story of a love triangle. Here, though, it seems distant and strange. The play is based on βThe Knightβs Taleβ in Chaucerβs Canterbury Tales. Chaucerβs tale comes from an Italian poem by Boccaccio. Thus in The Two Noble Kinsmen we have a late medieval narrative transformed into a seventeenth-century play.
Initially, the Theban knights Arcite and Palamon are devoted kinsmen, both serving their king, Creaon, who is defeated by Theseus, Duke of Athens. After they are imprisoned in Athens, they see Emilia, sister of the Duchess of Athens, through a window. They become rivals for her love, eager to fight each other to the death, even though she does not know they exist.
After Arcite is released and banished, and Palamon escapes, they begin their would-be fight to the death with chivalric ceremony. Theseus, happening on them, decrees that they must compete...
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