{"product_id":"9780486790145","title":"The Two Noble Kinsmen","description":"The king of Thebes is a tyrant but his young relatives, Palamon and Arcite, defend him anyway. The two noble kinsmen find their loyalty rewarded with imprisonment when they end up on the losing side of a battle with the great hero, Theseus of Athens. From the window of their jail they observe Emilia, the sister-in-law of their conqueror, whose stunning beauty shatters their vow of eternal brotherhood. Now the former friends must find a way to evade their captors and pursue the alluring princess, an undertaking that will conclude with a fight to the death.\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in 1634, this Jacobean tragicomedy features a plot derived from \"The Knight's Tale\" in Chaucer's \u003ci\u003eCanterbury Tales.\u003c\/i\u003e The play was originally attributed to both John Fletcher and William Shakespeare; its association with the latter is a longstanding source of controversy that is now generally accepted by scholarly consensus. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47105284145392,"sku":"9780486790145","price":3.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780486790145_p0.jpg?v=1763708992","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780486790145","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}