Art and Morality in Chaucer's Friar's Tale and the Decameron, Day One, Story One
- Author / Editor
- Finlayson, John.
Art and Morality in Chaucer's Friar's Tale and the Decameron, Day One, Story One
- Published
- Neophilologus 89 (2005): 139-52
- Description
- Finlayson reads FrT as anticlerical comic satire rather than a moral exemplum, exploring similarities between the Tale and Boccaccio's story of Ciapellatto in Decameron 1.1. The probable source of FrT is a sermon by Robert Rypon, but Boccaccio may have influenced its structure, characterization, narrative stance, and anticlerical outlook.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Friar and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.