Bibliograph

Comedy in Chaucer and Boccaccio, Carol Falvo Heffernan

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Comedy in Chaucer and Boccaccio, Carol Falvo Heffernan

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-145) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Comedy in Chaucer and Boccaccio

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Carol Falvo Heffernan

Series statement

Chaucer studies,, 40, 0261-9822

Summary

This is an examination of the relationship of the comic tales, the so-called fabliaux, in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' and Boccaccio's 'Decameron', suggesting that not only did Chaucer and Boccaccio share the same comic literary tradition stretching back into antiquity, but that Chaucer drew on the Italian's work., Although many of Chaucer's sources have been exhaustively studied, relatively little work has been done on the influence of his contemporary Boccaccio, a gap which this book aims to fill. It examines the relationship of the comic tales, the so-called fabliaux, in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Boccaccio's Decameron, demonstrating that not only did Chaucer draw on Boccaccio's work, but that they shared the same comic literary tradition stretching back into antiquity. By putting the tales and the characters side-by-side, it throws new light on Chaucer's inventiveness and mode of working. Professor CAROL FALVO HEFFERNAN teaches at the Department of English, Rutgers University, New Jersey

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