'Des contes a rire': Chaucer's and Boccaccio's Adaptations of Certain Old French 'Fabliaux'
- Author / Editor
- Gunnell, Donna Denise Prescott.
'Des contes a rire': Chaucer's and Boccaccio's Adaptations of Certain Old French 'Fabliaux'
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 50 (1989): 439A.
- Description
- Chaucer and Boccaccio, as the first sophisticated authors to write in the genre, adapted certain fabliaux to their purposes.
- Gunnell discusses sources of Chaucer's RvT, MerT, and ShT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Reeve and His Tale.
- Merchant and His Tale.
- Shipman and His Tale.