Chaucer and the 'Decameron' Reconsidered
- Author / Editor
- McGrady, Donald.
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.