Boccaccio-Chaucer-Shakespeare: Men of Renaissance: A Film Scenario

Author / Editor: Mitchell, John D., in collaboration with Donald Berwick and George Drew.

Published: John D. Mitchell and others. Men Stand on Shoulders (Key West, Fla.: Published by Institute for Advanced Studies in the Theatre Arts Press in association with Florida Keys Community College, 1996), pp. 1-71.

Description: A film script which combines "key lines and phrases" from Boccaccio's "Filostrato," TC, and Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida," interspersed with appearances of the three writers in moments of fictional biography. Re-tells the broad outlines of the traditional plot, and adds concern with literary tradition. The Boccaccio and Chaucer quotations are given in their original language and in translation. A brief introduction (pp. v-xiii) describes the project, including "Notes to the Filming."

Chaucer Subjects: Troilus and Criseyde; Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion; Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations; Recordings and Films