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  • 14 - The Ends of Romance in Chaucer and Malory

  • Edited by Roberta L. Krueger, Hamilton College, New York
  • Book:
    The New Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance
    Published online:
    11 May 2023
    Print publication:
    25 May 2023, pp 211-227

  • Summary

    This chapter demonstrates the seriousness and the versatility of the romance genre in the hands of two important late medieval English writers. Examples from the writings of fourteenth-century poet, Geoffrey Chaucer, and fifteenth-century translator and editor, Thomas Malory, reveal romance to be a fictionalizing genre capable of probing serious matters of broad political, social, ethical, or aesthetic concern. The range and versatility of the genre, moreover, offered these writers crucial opportunities for creative and editorial experimentation.