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

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

Middle Ages

David Anderson

272 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics literary poetry medium-paced
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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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