Just Say Yes, Chaucer Knew the Decameron : Or, Bringing the Shipman's Tale Out of Limbo
- Author / Editor
- Beidler, Peter G.
Just Say Yes, Chaucer Knew the Decameron : Or, Bringing the Shipman's Tale Out of Limbo
- 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. 25-46.
- Description
- Argues that Boccaccio's Decameron 8.1 was Chaucer's primary source for ShT, even though scholars have been reluctant to treat Decameron as a source for any of The Canterbury Tales. Posits definitions of source, hard analogue, and soft analogue.
- Alternative Title
- Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Shipman and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.