Project Gutenberg 2005-02-01 Public domain in the USA. 142 Dryden, John 1631 1700 Chaucer, Geoffrey 1342 1400 Chaucer, Jeffrey Dryden's Palamon and Arcite Reading ease score: 74.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Text file produced by Ted Garvin, Charles Franks and the Distributed Proofreaders Team HTML file produced by David Widger "Dryden's Palamon and Arcite," edited by George E. Eliot, is a narrative poem that adapts Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale" from his "Canterbury Tales", with a focus on themes of love, rivalry, and destiny. Written in the late 17th century, it showcases Dryden's poetic craft in translating and reinterpreting classic tales, highlighting the love triangle between the knights Palamon and Arcite, both of whom vie for the affection of the beautiful Emilia. The opening of the poem introduces Theseus, the Duke of Athens, returning home victorious alongside his new bride, Hippolyta, and her sister, Emilia. Upon encountering a group of mourning women, Theseus learns of their plight: they have lost their husbands in battle and are denied proper burial by the tyrant Creon of Thebes. Moved by their suffering, Theseus vows to avenge their wrongs, setting a course for the story's unfolding conflicts. We also meet Palamon and Arcite, two knights captured during the conflict, whose subsequent rivalry for Emilia’s love leads to a series of dramatic encounters shaped by fate and their competing desires. The stage is set for their battle for love and honor, intricately woven into the backdrop of their imprisonment and hopes for freedom. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Knight's tale -- Adaptations PR Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Poetry 246094 246095 2024-10-03T13:41:03.105482 2023-10-04T04:21:14.950679 text/html text/html 244141 2013-05-10T15:30:18 text/html 175450 2024-10-03T13:41:11.555379 application/epub+zip 179031 2024-10-03T13:41:06.500456 application/epub+zip 163858 2024-10-03T13:41:05.192435 application/epub+zip 321886 2024-10-03T13:41:14.305389 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 325857 2024-10-03T13:41:10.753406 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 282287 2022-09-04T06:18:41.462590 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 225846 225714 2024-10-03T13:41:02.647423 2023-10-04T04:21:14.626698 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 225585 2013-05-10T15:31:10 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 87754 2013-05-10T15:32:14 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 225587 2013-05-10T15:30:58 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 87720 2013-05-10T15:32:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22052 2024-10-03T13:41:14.436339 application/rdf+xml 13821 2024-10-03T13:41:05.750393 image/jpeg 3650 2024-10-03T13:41:05.467393 image/jpeg 90140 2013-05-10T15:32:14 application/octet-stream application/zip 173419 2024-10-03T13:41:03.129395 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia