"What strange ruin"’: Reading Backward to Thebes.
- Author / Editor
- Edwards, Robert R.
"What strange ruin"’: Reading Backward to Thebes.
- Published
- Tamara Atkin and Jaclyn Rajsic, eds. Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain: Essays in Honour of Professor Julia Boffey (Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2019), pp. 167–81.
- Description
- Considers Chaucer's uses of Theban material drawn from the tradition of Statius and Boccaccio, exploring how he adapted his sources and how, in turn, his works were adapted by others. Surveys the "exemplary power" of Thebes in Chaucer’s works, and offers comparative analysis of Anel and stories analogous to KnT and "The Two Noble Kinsmen."
- Contributor
- Atkin, Tamara, ed.
Rajsic, Jaclyn, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Manuscript and Print i n Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain: Essays in Honour of Professor Julia Boffey
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Anelida and Arcite
Knight and His Tale