Before the "Knight's Tale": Imitation of Classical Epic in Boccaccio's "Teseida"
- Author / Editor
- Anderson, David.
Before the "Knight's Tale": Imitation of Classical Epic in Boccaccio's "Teseida"
- Published
- Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988.
- Physical Description
- xiii, 269 pp.
- Description
- Explores Boccaccio's use of Statius's "Thebaid"--his "systematic transformation" of the epic in the historical context of Boccaccio's day--and Chaucer's reshaping of the epic in KnT. Chapter 4, "Imitation of the 'Thebaid' in the "Knight's Tale," examines the epic characteristics of KnT, refutes the theory that the "Teseida" was a "failed epic," and modifies critical perceptions of Chaucers use of the "source."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.