The Canterbury Tales

The Knight's Tale

Why are the women crying and wailing when Theseus returned home?

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The women, all dressed in black and wailing, are mourning their husbands and upset that Creon, the lord of the town, had tossed their dead bodies into a pile, refusing to burn or bury them.

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The Knight's Tale