The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Hanning, Robert W.

Title
The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales

Published
James H. McGregor, ed. Approaches to Teaching Boccaccio's Decameron (New York: Modern Language Association, 2000), pp. 103-18.

Description
Assesses the "relevance and importance" of the Decameron to the study of CT, considering evidence of Chaucer's knowledge of Boccaccio's work and the ways the two works reflect similar and different "cultural agendas." Comparison of shared motifs and tales reveals differences in the "sitedness" of individual tales--differences in the status of tales as personal or class-based expression.

Contributor
McGregor, James H., ed.

Alternative Title
Approaches to Teaching Boccaccio's Decameron.

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