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Before the Knight's Tale: Imitation of Classical Epic in Boccaccio's Teseida Hardback - 1988

by David Anderson

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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 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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  • Title Before the Knight's Tale: Imitation of Classical Epic in Boccaccio's Teseida
  • Author David Anderson
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 282
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1988-07-29
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780812281088 / 081228108X
  • Weight 1.28 lbs (0.58 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.69 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.75 cm)
  • Reading level 1530
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 88004739
  • Dewey Decimal Code 851.1
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