Comedy in Chaucer and Boccaccio / Carol Falvo Heffernan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heffernan, Carol Falvo.

Series:

Chaucer studies ; 40.

Chaucer studies, 0261-9822 ; 40

Language:

English

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Humor.

Chaucer, Geoffrey.

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375--Humor.

Boccaccio, Giovanni.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Criticism and interpretation.

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375--Criticism and interpretation.

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xi, 151 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K. ; Rochester, NY : D. S. Brewer, 2009.

Language Note:

Selections in Latin and Italian.

Summary:

Although many of Chaucer's sources have been exhaustively studied, relatively little work has been done on the influence of his contemporary Boccaccio, a gap which this book aims to fill. It examines the relationship of the comic tales, the so-called fabliaux, in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Boccaccio's Decameron, demonstrating that not only did Chaucer draw on Boccaccio's work, but that he and Boccaccio shared the same comic literary tradition stretching back into antiquity. By putting the tales and the characters side-by-side, new light is thrown on Chaucer's inventiveness and mode of working.

Contents:

1 Introductory Matters 1

2 The Comic Inheritance of Boccaccio and Chaucer 20

3 Parallel Comic Tales in the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales 38

4 Antifraternal Satire in Boccaccio and Chaucer 72

5 Adding Comedy: Boccaccio's Filostrato and Chaucer's / Troilus, Criseyde 101.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [135]-145) and index.

ISBN:

9781843842019

1843842017

OCLC:

303086413