A Classic Never Dies
In the Middle Ages, mankind (and women-kind) liked to be entertained by tales of chivalry, tales of good knights and bad knights, of sword-fighting, of struggle, of lust, and of love. Today, such tales still enthrall human beings. There is one major difference, however. Back in Chaucer?s time, these tales were occasionally written down, but more commonly memorized by men called bards. These tales were also often set to music, in the form of epic poetry. Today, we can turn on our television sets and our VCRs or our DVD players, pop in a cassette or a disc, as the case may be, and there it all is, in living color. The tales for which we have an inherent longing to hear are portrayed by people that we call actors, so we no longer have to use our imaginations to fill in the pictures. Some of the stories have changed, have become more modern, because a classic never dies. But some classics are preserved and re-told with very little modernization.
Chaucer?s ?The Knight?s Tale? is one such classic. In the modern world, it has been turned into a movie called ?A Knight?s
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