Chaucer and the 'Decameron' Reconsidered

Author / Editor
McGrady, Donald.

Title
Chaucer and the 'Decameron' Reconsidered

Published
Chaucer Review 12 (1977): 1-26.

Description
Hubertis M. Commings' dissertation (1914) denying that Chaucer knew the "Decameron" and an influential article by Willard Farnham (1924) positing that the work was not known in England until 1566 both are speciously reasoned. Chaucerian echoes of the framework and a dozen tales in the "Decameron" strongly suggest the contrary.

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