Sentence examples for chivalric romance from inspiring English sources

Don't you expect the ballroom duet of any "Cinderella" ballet to be all chivalric romance?

Cooke's novel, a chivalric romance set in the antebellum South, was a perfect target for Harte's urbane sarcasm.

No other version I know combines so well the tone of chivalric romance that is at the old ballet's core.

On the one hand, with the invention of printing and the rise of literacy, it grew longer, filling out into the chivalric romance and, ultimately, the novel.

Nominally satirizing the moribund chivalric romance, Cervantes presented "reality" on two levels: the "poetic truth" of Don Quixote and the "historic truth" of his squire, Sancho Panza.

Her new piece, "I Would," employs both choreography and carpentry as she takes a skeptical look at stories of chivalric romance.

"I would," dedicated to Cervantes, points to the chivalric romances parodied in "Don Quixote".

The priest shaped biography into an exemplum of other-worldliness, while the knight found escape from daily brutishness in allegory, chivalric romances, and broad satire (the fabliaux).

These chivalric romances perpetuated certain medieval ideals, but they also represented pure escapism, eventually provoking such literary reactions as the pastoral novel and the picaresque novel.

As part one opens, an aging minor nobleman named Alonso Quixano, enamoured by chivalric romances, sets out from his home village of La Mancha on a quest for adventure.

Among the manuscripts on view are allegorical poems (several versions of the "Romance of the Rose"), practical treatises ("Livre de la Chasse"), chivalric romances ("The Romance of Tristan") and Boccaccio's short biographies ("Of Noble Men and Women").