but the movie had no correlation to the book. makes no sense.
the idea of the movie is that Chaucer follows this knight around, and all this junk happens, and then later on, after the movie's story is over, he writes the Canterbury Tales, and incorporates a bunch of things that happen in the movie.
So if you'd read the Canterbury Tales and then went and saw the movie, you'd be like, "oh THAT's where he got that story from".
or something.
yea but the story is nothing like the movie...
in the book arcite, palamon , and theseus are the main knights. etc etc. and arcite and palamon are imprisoned..and one escapes and one is freed.
anyway .. i guess the only correlation is that there's a KNIGHT and he's doing his thing and someone is writing about it..
I didn't say the story "A Knight's Tale" was anything like the movie. there are other stories in the Canterbury Tales. This is what I've heard, I read the canterbury tales a LONG LONG time ago, and only remember the story about the guy who had the red hot poker shoved up his ...
We read the prologue in school..that took a month, and we read about two of the stories. I'm not a big fan of the Brit Lit