This is an explanation of the genre of the knight's tale.
The knight's tale is a chivalric romance.
There are adventures of knights in a more romantic and civilised way than they were in reality, also usually with a fight at the end of the story for the love of a girl like; 'I'm in love with her too...' and 'Now fight together till the fight is done!' or 'Just as you ask so shall I do!'
Chivalry and romance becomes a mix that nobody can forget as it all ads up to chivalric romance. These stories are set in the medieval times (12th century onwards), that doesn't necessarily mean that they were written in those days. Chivalric romances were written as a kind of "parody" of the real knights in the medieval times who were actually really really brutal. Romance was the only way they could make the brutal, bad, murderous knights of their time. Sometimes hey have a small moral hidden in the story- 'Who thinks the prize is worth more than the fight!' Chivalry could also be many things from saving a princess to having a joust for a beautifully maiden.
Palamon and Arcite prove, as they fight to the death for a princess, that they have all the requirements for being romantic and chivalric. Therefore this should conclude that the knight's tale is a chivalric romance.
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