Before the Knight's Tale: Imitation of Classical Epic in Boccaccio's Teseida by David Anderson

Middle Ages

Before the Knight's Tale: Imitation of Classical Epic in Boccaccio's Teseida

David Anderson

272 pages hardcover

1 edition

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The focus of Before the Knight's Tale is the transformation of Statius's Thebaid into Boccaccio's Teseida and Chaucer's subsequent reshaping of this rich literary tradition in the Knight's Tale. David Anderson examines Boccaccio's imitative art in...

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