Arcite

Arcite is paroled, Palamon escapes, and they are duelling to the death for the fair Emilia when the Duke discovers them and makes them go away for a while in order to come back and fight properly.

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I prefer in our countryman, far above all his other stories, the noble poem of Palamon and Arcite, which is of the Epic kind, and perhaps not much inferior to the Ilias, or the Æneis.

The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes John Dryden 1665

Arcite wins the combat, but just as Palamon and his team-mates are about to be executed, Arcite falls off his horse and dies, so Palamon gets to marry Emilia and everyone (except Arcite) lives happily ever after.

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The two noble kinsmen of the title are Palamon and Arcite, kin of the ruler of Thebes, taken as prisoners of war to Athens where they both fall in love with the Duke's sister.

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And I haven't mentioned the deep manly love that Palamon and Arcite profess for one another when they are not competing to win Emilia, nor Emilia's early professed deep womanly love for the otherwise unmentioned Flavinia (though if I was directing this I would make her the jailer's daughter).

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(Little changed since Chaucer there) This fierse Arcite hath of his helm ydon, ..

Polly Loves Milly Newmania 2008

Warwick, Palamon and Arcite, and the Romaunt of the Rose, were with her text-books and canonical authorities.

Westward Ho! 2007

Rather, the Mars-Venus axis refers to Geoffrey Chaucer, who “redefines the poles of excessive behavior in terms of astrological inclination, so that the worship and subservience to the gods Mars and Venus by Arcite and Palamon, respectively is simultaneously understood by the reader as excessively marcien and venerien planetary influence.”

Dont You Forget About Me Jaime Clarke 2007

Rather, the Mars-Venus axis refers to Geoffrey Chaucer, who “redefines the poles of excessive behavior in terms of astrological inclination, so that the worship and subservience to the gods Mars and Venus by Arcite and Palamon, respectively is simultaneously understood by the reader as excessively marcien and venerien planetary influence.”

Dont You Forget About Me Jaime Clarke 2007

For how many gallants offered to lose their lives for a night's lodging with Cleopatra in those days! and in the hour or moment of death, 'tis their sole comfort to remember their dear mistress, as [5443] Zerbino slain in France, and Brandimart in Barbary; as Arcite did his Emily.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007