Celluloid Criticism: Pasolini's Contribution to a Chaucerian Debate
- Author / Editor
- Robinson, Carol L.
Celluloid Criticism: Pasolini's Contribution to a Chaucerian Debate
- Published
- Studies in Medievalism 5 (1993): 115-26.
- Description
- Pasolini's reading of the Wife of Bath as "a rebellious heretic who is yet a sexual and clownish bully" challenges more sympathetic "readings" of the Wife rather than re-creating her Chaucerian self-presentation. The film "I racconti di Canterbury" is not a "faithful adaptation" of CT but a series of "critical 'essays'" colored by Pasolini's deep-seated misogyny.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.