SOURCE: '"Is this Winning?': Prince Henry's Death and the Problem of Chivalry in The Two Noble Kinsmen," in The South Atlantic Review, Vol. 62, No. 1, Winter, 1997, pp. 1-31.
Below, Herman argues that Shakespeare and Fletcher's adaptation of Chaucer's The Knight's Tale was "significantly influenced" by the recent premature death of the young Prince Henry of Wales in 1613 and by the public disillusionment brought about by this event.
