Boccaccio's Decameron 6.10 and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales VI.287-968: Thinking on Your Feet and the Set-Piece

Author / Editor
Heffernan, Carol Falvo.

Title
Boccaccio's Decameron 6.10 and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales VI.287-968: Thinking on Your Feet and the Set-Piece

Published
Florilegium 22 (2005): 105-20.

Description
Cipolla's tale concludes a set of stories focusing on wit, and PardT ends a fragment that precedes one centered on poetic language. The tales of both speakers coincide in "genre, character, theme, and placement," even though Cipolla improvises his story and the Pardoner relies on a set text.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.