Comedy in Chaucer and Boccaccio
- Author / Editor
- Heffernan, Carol Falvo.
Comedy in Chaucer and Boccaccio
- Published
- Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2009.
- Physical Description
- ix, 151 pp.
- Series
- Chaucer Studies, no. 40.
- Description
- Exploring the question "When is Chaucer known in Italy?" Heffernan surveys other scholars who have examined Chaucer's writings within the Italian tradition and focuses on shared comedic themes in the works of Boccaccio and Chaucer. She reviews historical background of Chaucer's two trips to Italy in 1373 and 1378 and argues that the trips offered Chaucer a chance for literary exchange, which heavily influenced his fabliaux. Heffernan examines parallel comic tales in the Decameron and CT; Chaucer's comedy "is not so much derivative of Boccaccio's as part of a common European comic tradition that both poets inherited and revived" (129).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Chaucer's Life.
- Canterbury Tales--General.