The Monk's De casibus : The Boccaccio Case Reopened
- Author / Editor
- Neuse, Richard.
The Monk's De casibus : The Boccaccio Case Reopened
- Published
- Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen, eds. The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question (Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000), pp 247-77.
- Description
- As KnT is a reduction of the Teseida, MkT is a miniature imitation of Boccaccio's "De casibus virorum illustrium." The Monk, Boccaccio's ironic double, interrogates newly emergent forms of tragedy and contests with the other pilgrims within the pilgrimage frame, reflecting other similarities between Boccaccio's historical collection and Chaucer's pilgrimage fiction.
- Alternative Title
- Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.