Man Alone and Man in Society: Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale' and Boccacio's 'Teseida'

Author / Editor
Branch, Eren Hostetter.

Title
Man Alone and Man in Society: Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale' and Boccacio's 'Teseida'

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 35 (1975): 7861A.

Description
Boccaccio's "Teseida" is about social relationships and its theme is the proper behavior of rational people in a rational society. The KnT also treats social behavior, but its concern is people's attitude towards irrational, superhuman forces.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.