Something About Emilia: Woman as Love Object in Boccaccio, Chaucer, Anne de Graville, and Shakespeare and Fletcher

Author / Editor
Wing, Susan L.

Title
Something About Emilia: Woman as Love Object in Boccaccio, Chaucer, Anne de Graville, and Shakespeare and Fletcher

Published
Cornelia N. Moore and Raymond A. Moody, eds. Comparative Literature East and West: Traditions and Trends. Selected Conference Papers (Honolulu: College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature, University of Hawaii, and the East-West Center, 1989), pp. 139-51.

Description
Wing explores similarities and differences among the characterizations of Emelye in Boccaccio's Teseida, KnT, Anne de Graville's Le beau romant, and The Two Noble Kinsmen. The characterizations differ, but only in Shakespeare and Fletcher's play is the character's passivity exposed as powerlessness.

Alternative Title
Comparative Literature East and West: Traditions and Trends.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.