The Dialectic of Adaptation: 'The Canterbury Tales' of Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Author / Editor
- Green, Martin.
The Dialectic of Adaptation: 'The Canterbury Tales' of Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Published
- Literature/Film Quarterly 4 (1976): 46-53.
- Description
- Pasolini in his "Canterbury Tales" identifies himself as Chaucer because his central concern is relationship of artist to art, focusing on sexuality and morality. The Merchant's Tale and Wife's Prologue show respectability cloaking lust; the Friar's and Pardoner's Tales sexual and moral corruption; the Miller's, Reeve's, and Cook's liberated sexuality.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.