Rewriting Menedon's Story : Decameron 10.5 and the Franklin's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Edwards, Robert R.
Rewriting Menedon's Story : Decameron 10.5 and the Franklin's Tale
- 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. 226-46.
- Description
- Both Boccaccio in Decameron and Chaucer in FranT rewrite the story of Menedon from Filocolo, and both investigate whether social worth is dependent on lineage or character. While Boccaccio emphasizes the new urban nontraditional man, Chaucer attempts to merge nostalgia and emergent modernism.
- Alternative Title
- Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.