Classical and Medieval Influences on Chaucer's Fabliau Comedy

Author / Editor
Bishop, Kathleen A.

Title
Classical and Medieval Influences on Chaucer's Fabliau Comedy

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 4643A.

Description
Explores how classical comedy (especially Plautus and Ovid) and medieval elegiac comedies influenced Chaucer's fabliaux and the fabliau elements of ManT, WBP, TC, and the Prologue to the apocryphal Tale of Beryn.

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