Medieval Vernacular Versions of Ancient Comedy: Geoffrey Chaucer, Eustache Deschamps, Vitalis of Blois and Plautus' "Amphitryon."
- Author / Editor
- Kendrick, Laura.
Medieval Vernacular Versions of Ancient Comedy: Geoffrey Chaucer, Eustache Deschamps, Vitalis of Blois and Plautus' "Amphitryon."
- Published
- S. Douglas Olson, ed. Ancient Comedy and Reception: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Henderson (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014), pp. 377-96.
- Description
- Investigates the performative nature of Deschamps's "relatively faithful French translation," "Geta et Amphitrion," and proposes an occasion when it might have been performed. Contrasts Deschamps's treatment of Plautus's Latin original with those of other writers, including Chaucer, who "assimilated and mixed motifs from Latin comedies without acknowledgment" in CT. Exemplifies Chaucer's practice of combining motifs by discussing the pear-tree scene of MerT.
- Contributor
- S. Douglas Olson, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Ancient Comedy and Reception: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Henderson,
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations