Re-Reading Lancelot: Dante, Chaucer, and 'Le Chevalier de la charrette'
- Author / Editor
- Botterill, Steven.
Re-Reading Lancelot: Dante, Chaucer, and 'Le Chevalier de la charrette'
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 67 (1988): 279-89.
- Description
- Chaucer's MkT and "Le Chevalier de la charrette" illustrate variations on the character Ugolino from Dante's "Inferno." Chaucer manipulates Dante's story to emphasize the Monk's exemplum: the fall of a a great man beset by adverse fortune.
- In the context of Dante, Chaucer's Ugolino and Chretien's Hugelyn provide an interesting contrast--both in their literary voices and in their concepts of self-responsibility for their fates.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.