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Before the "Knight's Tale" : Imitation of Classical Epic in Boccaccio's "Teseida"
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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. Da...
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 its historical context, defining his model of classical epic and his imitative strategy in the Teseida. Two medieval prologues to the Thebaid, with a series of Boccaccio's own glosses on a passage in Thebaid 7, are made available for the first time in the appendixes.
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- Creator
- David Anderson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1988]
- ©1988
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource : 4 illus
- ISBNs
- 9781512800067, 1512800066, 9780585126364, 0585126364, 081228108X
- OCLC
- on1024010357, on1029817390, on1032690865, on1037981851, on1041994088, on1046607900, on1046998523, on1049611509, on1054880645, on1101793780
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Issued also in print.
- English
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Imitation of the Main Action -- 2. The Alternate Ending -- 3. Boccaccio's Model of Epic Narrative -- 4. Imitation of the Thebaid in the Knight's Tale -- Appendixes -- Indexes
Subjects
- Seven against Thebes (Greek mythology) in literature -- Classical influences
- Poetry, Medieval -- Classical influences
- Epic poetry
- Sibling rivalry in literature
- Imitation in literature
- Thebes (Greece) -- In literature.
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Teseida.
- Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius). Thebais.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Knight's tale -- Sources.
- Polynices (Greek mythological figure)
- Eteocles, King of Thebes (Mythological character)