Chaucer and Boccaccio: Antiquity and Modernity

by Robert R. Edwards

A Note of Texts and Abbreviations Preface Introduction The 'strif of Thebes': Statius, Boccaccio, and Chaucer The Twin Necessity of Troilus and Criseyde The 'confusion of gentil wemen': Antiquity and the Short Side of History The 'Cherles Tale' and Chaucerian Modernity 'The sclaundre of Walter': The Clerk's Tale and the Problem of Hermeneutics Rewriting Menedon's Story: Decameron 10.5 and The Franklin's Tale Notes Index

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 033397008X
• ISBN13: 9780333970089
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"