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A Knight's Tale is a 2001 American medieval action comedy film [5] [6] written, co-produced and directed by Brian Helgeland.The film stars Heath Ledger as William Thatcher, a peasant squire who poses as a knight and competes in tournaments, winning accolades and acquiring friendships with such historical figures as Edward the Black Prince (James Purefoy) and Geoffrey Chaucer (Paul Bettany).
"The Knight's Tale" (Middle English: The Knightes Tale) is the first tale from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. 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.
Like the Tale of Beryn, it is preceded by a prologue in which the pilgrims arrive in Canterbury. Lydgate places himself among the pilgrims as one of them and describes how he was a part of Chaucer's trip and heard the stories. He characterises himself as a monk and tells a long story about the history of Thebes before the events of the Knight's ...
His name is the pseudonym adopted by Arcite upon covertly returning to Athens in The Knight's Tale to work for Theseus. (A Knight's Tale was dramatised nearly twenty years later by Shakespeare and Fletcher as The Two Noble Kinsmen.) Chaucer himself took the name Philostrate from Boccaccio's poem Il Filostrato, a story about Troilus and Criseyde ...
Sony released “A Knight’s Tale” to $117 million at the worldwide box office in summer 2001. Heath Ledger led the ensemble cast, which also included Paul Bettany and Alan Tudyk.
Heath Ledger in ‘A Knight’s Tale.’ Cover Images A Knight’s Tale almost got a sequel on Netflix, but without the late Heath Ledger — at least according to screenwriter Brian Helgeland.
Palamon and Arcite is a translation of The Knight's Tale from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Although the plot line is identical, Dryden expanded the original text with poetic embellishments. The source of Chaucer's tale was Boccaccio's Teseida. Translations include those by Percival Ashley Chubb (1899) [1] and Walter William Skeat ...
“A Knight’s Tale” is set to be turned into a musical, with the theatrical show set to debut in Manchester, U.K. next year. The 2001 movie, which starred Heath Ledger, Paul Bettany and Rufus ...