{"product_id":"comedy-in-chaucer-and-boccaccio-9781843842019","title":"Comedy in Chaucer and Boccaccio","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA comparison of Chaucer and Boccaccio sheds new light on both writers, indicating their mutual use of ancient comic literary traditions.  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 comictales, 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 they shared the same comic literary tradition stretching back into antiquity. By putting the tales and the characters side-by-side, it throws new light on Chaucer's inventiveness and mode of working.   Professor CAROL FALVO HEFFERNAN teaches at the Department of English, Rutgers University, New Jersey.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarol Falvo Heffernan's achievement is to have written a full and balanced synthesis while extending the discussion to a comparative evaluation of Boccaccio's writing. [Her] study will provoke much further debate. * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface and Acknowledgements Introductory Matters The Comic Inheritance of Boccaccio and Chaucer Parallel Comic Tales in the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales Antifraternal Satire Boccaccio's Filostrato and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: Adding Comedy Conclusion Bibliography","brand":"Boydell \u0026 Brewer Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49413446173015,"sku":"9781843842019","price":58.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781843842019.jpg?v=1730520185","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/comedy-in-chaucer-and-boccaccio-9781843842019","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}