How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “Shakespeare had been rereading Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale" from The Tales ofCanterbury”
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving: “There is, in this charming scene, an evident resemblance to the early part of Chaucer's Knight's Tale, where Palamon and Arcite fall in love with Emilia, whom they see walking in the garden of their prison.”