SOURCE: “Love, War, and the Cost of Winning: The Knight's Tale and The Two Noble Kinsmen,” in The Swan at the Well: Shakespeare Reading Chaucer, Yale University Press, 1985, pp. 50-73.
In the following essay, Donaldson studies the differences between the portrayals of Palamon and Arcite in The Two Noble Kinsmen and in Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, observing that Shakespeare and Fletcher eliminated distinctions between the two kinsmen that appear in Chaucer's poem.
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