{"product_id":"comedy-in-chaucer-and-boccaccio-9781843842019","title":"Comedy in Chaucer and Boccaccio","description":"\u003cb\u003eA comparison of Chaucer and Boccaccio sheds new light on both writers, indicating their mutual use of ancient comic literary traditions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough 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 \u003ci\u003eCanterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e and Boccaccio's \u003ci\u003eDecameron\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Professor CAROL FALVO HEFFERNAN teaches at the Department of English, Rutgers University, New Jersey.","brand":"Carol Falvo Heffernan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280551457019,"sku":"9781843842019","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781843842019_6736620f-9765-499f-aafb-8dcf4c25fcb4.jpg?v=1772487505","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/comedy-in-chaucer-and-boccaccio-9781843842019","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}