The Knight's Tale
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"The Knight's Tale" is the first tale from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
The first page of Knight's Tale in the Ellesmere manuscript
Emilia in the rose garden from Boccaccio's Teseida, French, c. 1460
A Knight's Tale
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A Knight's Tale is a 2001 American medieval action comedy film written, co-produced and directed by Brian Helgeland. The film stars Heath Ledger as William Thatcher, a peasant squire who poses as a kn
The Knight's Tale
…is transformed into a competition between two young men for the attentions of a barmaid. The story is one of the tales that inspired the 2001 movie A Knight's Tale, in which Chaucer himself is one of the principal characters, alongside Heath Ledger as William Thatcher, a peasant squire who poses as a knight and…
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