TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anderson,David
TI  - Before the "Knight's Tale": Imitation of Classical Epic in Boccaccio's "Teseida" 
T2  - The Middle Ages Series
SN  - 9780812281088
AV  - PQ4270.T43A54 1988 
U1  - 851/.1 
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Cultural Studies
KW  - Literature
KW  - Medieval and Renaissance Studies
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512800067
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ER  -