Chaucer's "Decameron" and the Origin of the "Canterbury Tales."
- Author / Editor
- Biggs, Frederick M.
Chaucer's "Decameron" and the Origin of the "Canterbury Tales."
- Published
- Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2017.
- Physical Description
- 275 pp.
- Description
- Addresses connections between Boccaccio's "Decameron" and CT, with particular focus on ShT, MilT, and WBT. Presents a "hermeneutic argument" that explores areas including "alchemy, domestic spaces, economic history, folklore, Irish/English politics, manuscripts, and misogyny" in works of Boccaccio and Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Canterbury Tales--General
Miller and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Shipman and His Tale