Chaucer's French Pentameter
- Author / Editor
- Guthrie, Steven R.
Chaucer's French Pentameter
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 46 (1986): 2289A.
- Description
- The similarity in "rhythmic structure and characteristic variations" of Chaucer's iambic pentameter in TC to Machaut's French "decasyllabe" in "Jugement dou Roy de Behaingne" has "implications for wider issues" in criticism. Using Parkes-Salter facsimile of the Corpus Christi MS and theories of Kiparski-Liberman-Prince, Guthrie compares Chaucer's metrics with those in Boccaccio's "Filostrato" and Shakespeare's sonnets.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.