The Wake of the 'Commedia': Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' and Boccaccio's 'Decameron'

Author / Editor
Kirkpatrick, Robin.

Title
The Wake of the 'Commedia': Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' and Boccaccio's 'Decameron'

Published
Chaucer and the Italian Trecento (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 201-29.

Description
Focuses on qualities that distinguish CT from the "Decameron:" the self-deprecating Chaucer persona, Chaucer's concern with human individuality, his willingness to admit the limitations of language and art, and his use of irony.

Alternative Title
Chaucer and the Italian Trecento.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.