15+ The Canterbury Tales The Knight Pictures. The canterbury tales is the last of geoffrey chaucer's works, and he only finished 24 of an initially planned 100 tales. Geoffrey chaucer's the knight's tale found in the canterbury tales, is the story of two knights from thebes who fall in love with the same woman, a princess of athens named emily.

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Here is the portrait of the knight from the general prologue. The knight begins his tale with the story of theseus, a prince, who married hippolyta, the queen of scythia, and brought her and her sister, emelye, back to athens with him after. They languish in prison together for a while, until they notice the duke's daughter emily.

One day, they see emilye, the queen's young sister, walking in her garden.

Iamque domos patrias scithice post aspera gentis prelia laurigero. And with a knight thus will i first begin. The knight's tale (middle english: Geoffery chaucer's classic anthology of stories is perhaps the most famous piece of middle.