The Knight’s Tale Video Summary — Transcript

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1. 0:00the knight's tale is a chivalric romance
2. 0:02adapted from giovanni boccaccios to seda
3. 0:06and is the first story in jeffrey
4. 0:08chaucer's the canterbury tales
5. 0:11widely considered chaucer's magnum opus
6. 0:14the canterbury tales was originally
7. 0:16composed in middle english between
8. 0:191387 and 1400
9. 0:23the collection is comprised of 24 poems
10. 0:27narrated as part of a storytelling
11. 0:29contest
12. 0:30between a group of pilgrims traveling
13. 0:32from london to canterbury to visit the
14. 0:35shrine of saint thomas abekit
15. 0:39when the pilgrims draw lots to see who
16. 0:42will tell the first tale
17. 0:44the knight
18. 0:45whom chaucer describes as both a storied
19. 0:48mercenary and a modest gentleman is
20. 0:51chosen
21. 0:54the principal characters in the night's
22. 0:56tale are cousins
23. 0:57arsite and palamon who sacrifice their
24. 1:01lifelong friendship to win the hand of
25. 1:03the beautiful emily
26. 1:06they seek victory through acts of
27. 1:07chivalrous vainglory to marry the
28. 1:10princess
29. 1:11which ends with tragic consequences for
30. 1:14one of the knights
31. 1:17the poem opens with the story of theseus
32. 1:20a duke returning to his native athens
33. 1:23after conquering the realm of the
34. 1:24amazons formerly named scythia
35. 1:28and marrying hippolyta an amazonian
36. 1:31queen
37. 1:32while bringing hippolyta and her sister
38. 1:35emily back to athens
39. 1:37theseus encounters a group of women clad
40. 1:39in black on the side of the highway near
41. 1:42thebes
42. 1:43the oldest of the women begs for theseus
43. 1:46as pity
44. 1:48saying that she was once the wife of
45. 1:49king coppanius who was vanquished by
46. 1:52creon
47. 1:53the new ruler of thebes
48. 1:56after conquering thebes creon refused to
49. 1:59bury the bodies of those slain in battle
50. 2:02the very soldiers mourned now by the
51. 2:05women on the
52. 2:06road theseus orders his army towards
53. 2:10thebes swearing vengeance on creon and
54. 2:13soon defeating him
55. 2:15while surveying the battlefield
56. 2:17afterward theseus men come upon two of
57. 2:20creon's knights arcetae and palamon who
58. 2:24are injured but not dead
59. 2:27theseus sentences the young men to
60. 2:29lifelong imprisonment in an athenian
61. 2:31tower
62. 2:34one day
63. 2:35after years of imprisonment
64. 2:37the knights spot hippolyta's sister
65. 2:39emily picking flowers in a garden near
66. 2:42the tower's window
67. 2:44both men immediately fall in love with
68. 2:46her
69. 2:48over the years the night's friendship
70. 2:51crumbles as they vie for her affection
71. 2:54eventually arcete is freed with the help
72. 2:57of his childhood friend perotheus
73. 3:00a duke who happens to be visiting athens
74. 3:03however
75. 3:04theseus agrees to free arsote on the
76. 3:06condition that arsete never steps foot
77. 3:09in athens again
78. 3:11tragically prohibiting him from courting
79. 3:13emily
80. 3:16after spending a year or two in thebes
81. 3:19arsenite dreams that the god mercury
82. 3:21tells him to go to athens and pursue
83. 3:23emily's love
84. 3:25he decides to do so in disguise
85. 3:28taking a job as a page in emily's
86. 3:30household
87. 3:32under the name phyllis strait
88. 3:34arsete eventually earns the approval of
89. 3:37theseus himself
90. 3:38who makes him a squire of his chamber
91. 3:43meanwhile palamon has been imprisoned
92. 3:45for nearly seven years when he decides
93. 3:47to escape from the tower and flee the
94. 3:49city
95. 3:50intending to return in disguise much
96. 3:53like our city
97. 3:55with the help of a friend palamon
98. 3:57escapes his jailer after spiking his
99. 3:59spiced wine with narcotics and opium
100. 4:03reaching a grove paloman comes upon
101. 4:06arsete riding his war horse
102. 4:09arsote is talking to himself
103. 4:12and palamon overhears him lamenting life
104. 4:14without emily's love
105. 4:17still hidden
106. 4:18palamon grows angry and leaps out to
107. 4:21confront arsete
108. 4:23since neither is armed the men vow to
109. 4:26meet in the same place the next day and
110. 4:28fight to the death for emily
111. 4:33both knights return
112. 4:34armed for battle
113. 4:36but they are interrupted by theseus
114. 4:38hippolyta and emily who were out on a
115. 4:41hunt
116. 4:42when palamon reveals that he and arsote
117. 4:45are the formerly imprisoned knights
118. 4:47theseus initially sentences them to
119. 4:49death
120. 4:51but hippolyta and emily intervene
121. 4:54begging theseus for mercy
122. 4:57upon receiving their word never to wage
123. 4:59war on athens theseus decrees that the
124. 5:02knights will compete for emily's love in
125. 5:04a duel
126. 5:05each armed with 100 nights
127. 5:09the winner will marry emily
128. 5:13the night before the duel palamon prays
129. 5:15to a statue of venus
130. 5:17asking the goddess of love to make emily
131. 5:20his wife
132. 5:22when the statue shakes palamon
133. 5:24interprets it as an omen that the
134. 5:26goddess is listening
135. 5:28meanwhile emily prays to diana
136. 5:31goddess of chastity to remain unmarried
137. 5:36adding that if it is her destiny to get
138. 5:38married she would prefer to marry
139. 5:40someone who truly loves her
140. 5:45finally
141. 5:46arsete prays to the god of war mars for
142. 5:49victory in battle in return mars
143. 5:53whispers the word
144. 5:55victory to him
145. 5:57a third omen
146. 6:00chaos soon erupts in the heavens with
147. 6:03mars and venus waging war on each other
148. 6:06that is until experienced saturn offers
149. 6:09a compromise
150. 6:11wherein venus can help palamon win his
151. 6:14lady
152. 6:15and mars can help arsete win the battle
153. 6:20theseus commissions a lavish stadium for
154. 6:23the duel
155. 6:24and the day of the competition finally
156. 6:26arrives
157. 6:28the two sides compete valiantly but in
158. 6:30the heat of battle palamon is
159. 6:33accidentally wounded by a sword thrust
160. 6:36theseus declares arsete the winner
161. 6:39but before the knight can claim emily as
162. 6:42this prize
163. 6:43pluto sends an earthquake that frightens
164. 6:46arsote's horse causing him to throw the
165. 6:49soldier to the ground wounding his head
166. 6:54with his dying breaths
167. 6:56arsete tells emily that she should marry
168. 7:00palomon and acknowledging the chivalric
169. 7:03code of conduct
170. 7:05he admits that his wounded enemy is
171. 7:07worthy of her love
172. 7:10following a heroic funeral for arsote
173. 7:13emily indeed marries palamon fulfilling
174. 7:16their three prayers