Boccaccio, Chaucer and the International Popular Tale
- Author / Editor
- Utley, Francis Lee.
Boccaccio, Chaucer and the International Popular Tale
- Published
- Western Folklore 33 (1974): 181-201.
- Description
- Comments on the roles and methods of folklore study in literary criticism, arguing that international folktales are as important as elite narratives for understanding and appreciating medieval literature. Discusses plots shared by Boccaccio and Chaucer (RvT, ClT, MerT, FranT, ShT) and assesses relations between FrT and an analogous Irish folktale. Also discusses the Proem to Book 4 of the "Decameron" and its analogues.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and LIterary Relations
- Friar and His Tale
- Reeve and His Tale
- Clerk and His Tale
- Merchant and His Tale
- Franklin and His Tale
- Shipman and His Tale