Art and Morality in Chaucer's Friar's Tale and the Decameron, Day One, Story One

Author / Editor
Finlayson, John.

Title
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.