Some Recent Opinions about the Possible Influence of Boccaccio's 'Decameron' on Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Tedeschi, Sveto.
Some Recent Opinions about the Possible Influence of Boccaccio's 'Decameron' on Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia 33-36 (1972-1973): 849-72.
- Description
- Surveys critical commentary on the possibility of Chaucer's debt to Boccaccio's "Decameron" in CT, arguing that the evidence for influence is unpersuasive, especially when other analogues are closer. Considers various critical discussions of the Canterbury "framework," MilT, RvT, MLT, ClT, FranT, ShT, WBP, and MerT, addressing in greatest detail the commentary in Richard Guerin's 1966 dissertation.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations