Chaucer and Boccaccio: Antiquity and Modernity
- Author / Editor
- Edwards, Robert R.
Chaucer and Boccaccio: Antiquity and Modernity
- Published
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; and New York : Palgrave, 2002.
- Physical Description
- xv, 205 pp.
- Description
- Boccaccio provided Chaucer with a means for understanding and configuring antiquity and modernity. Chapter 1 focuses on kinds of love, tensions in Theseus's rule, and the subjugation of women in KnT. Chapter 2 explores how chroniclers, Boccaccio, and Chaucer's TC represent human choices, historical necessity, and erotic determinism.
- Chapter 3 argues that Chaucer's narrative of Dido (HF) and the women of LGW critique antiquity and pit women who believe in courtly and aristocratic ideals against men who manipulate them. Chapter 4 examines horizontal associations among members within a tenacious hierarchy, as well as the mercantile ethic in MilT, RvT, ShT and PardT.
- Chapter 5 compares the hermeneutics of Boccaccio's, Petrarch's and Chaucer's renderings of the Griselda story, and Chapter 6 analyzes Boccaccio's and Chaucer's versions of Menedon's story in the Decameron and FranT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Knight and His Tale
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Legend of Good Women
- House of Fame
- Clerk and His Tale
- Franklin and His Tale
- Canterbury Tales--General