Regendering Griselda on the London Stage.

Author / Editor
Smarr, Janet Levarie.

Title
Regendering Griselda on the London Stage.

Published
Martin Eisner and David Lummus, eds. A Boccaccian Renaissance: Essays on the Early Modern Impact of Giovanni Boccaccio and His Works (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 2019), pp. 293-310.

Description
Observes that ClT sets its view of marriage in opposition to WBPT, suggesting that this reflects Chaucer's familiarity with Boccaccio's "Decameron" and inspired "the reversal of Griselda’s gender" in two early modern English plays, analyzed here: "The Pleasant Comedie of Patient Grissil" by Thomas Dekker, Henry Chettle, and William Haughton; and "The Honest Whore, Part I" by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker.

Contributor
Eisner, Martin, ed.
Lummus, David, ed.

Alternative Title
A Boccaccian Renaissance: Essays on the Early Modern Impact of Giovanni Boccaccio and His Works

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Wife of Bath and Her Tale