Chaucer and Shakespeare on Tragedy
- Author / Editor
- Kelly, Henry Ansgar.
Chaucer and Shakespeare on Tragedy
- Published
- Leeds Studies in English 20 (1989): 191-206.
- Description
- Chaucer discovered tragedy as a narrative genre not from Boccaccio but from Boethius and from the glossator of his own copy of "De consolatione," who may have been Ralph Strode. Chaucer's concept of tragedy included the fall of the innocent as well as the guilty, the view that was eventually adopted by Shakespeare.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Boece.