Idols of the Marketplace: Chaucer/Pasolini.

Published: Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, eds. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 130-48.

Description: Interprets Pier Paolo Pasolini's "I racconti di Canterbury" as a "profound" engagement with CT, analyzing four instances of adaptation that reflect subtle appreciation and understanding of Chaucer's themes and techniques: a latrine scene at the beginning of Pasolini's version of RvT, the gesture used to drive away the cat in his SumT, the "self-reflexiveness" of his casting himself as Chaucer, and his "use of voice" in MerT and placement of it as the first of his tales.

Chaucer Subjects: Recordings and Films
Canterbury Tales--General
Reeve and His Tale
Summoner and His Tale
Merchant and His Tale