'Des contes a rire': Chaucer's and Boccaccio's Adaptations of Certain Old French 'Fabliaux'

Author / Editor
Gunnell, Donna Denise Prescott.

Title
'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.