The Knight's tale: Alternative ending – “A big surprise”

The Knight's tale: Alternative ending – “A big surprise”

Theseus listened to those women’s testimonies, and decided to go with them to Thebes, in order to help them to find the corpses or bones of their husbands for the funeral rites, when they all arrived in Thebes, Theseus said Creon that two women wanted to talk with him about their husbands’ situation. Women were decided to fight against Creon and demand their rights as warriors’ wives.

  Suddenly a group of men appeared in the middle of the battleground and the two women that were suffering, noticed how their husbands were alive and using  the uniform that identify the Thebes’ army commanded by Creon. Theseus without knowing what to do left Thebes and returned Athens. The warriors could not talk with their wives because of a law imposed by Creon. The two women stayed in Thebes by working as Creon’s housewives. One day Leonora and Lady decided to create a plan to kill the Thebes’ king and recover their husbands.

One night the women entered into Creon’s bedroom killed him and recuperated their husbands, the warriors and their wives decided to go to Athens where they got married and lived happy for the rest of their lifes.