The Influence of Plautus and Latin Elegiac Comedy on Chaucer's Fabliaux

Author / Editor
Bishop, Kathleen A.

Title
The Influence of Plautus and Latin Elegiac Comedy on Chaucer's Fabliaux

Published
Chaucer Review 35: 294-317, 2001.

Description
Classical and medieval Latin influences on the fabliaux are as important to analyze as are the analogues Chaucer draws upon for his tales. Specifically, a close consideration of Plautus and Latin elegiac comedy can lead to a fuller understanding of the shaping of Chaucer's fabliaux.

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