Chaucer's Dante: Allegory and Epic Theater in the Canterbury Tales - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520348738ISBN-10:520348737UPC:9780520348738Book Category:Performing Arts, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Theater, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, EuropeanBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCQ4MCDXKV
Chaucer's Dante: Allegory and Epic Theater in the Canterbury Tales
Richard Neuse here explores the relationship between two great medieval epics, Dante's Divine Comedy and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He argues that Dante's attraction for Chaucer lay not so much in the spiritual dimension of the Divine Comedy as in the human. Borrowing Bertolt Brecht's phrase "epic theater," Neuse underscores the interest of both poets in presenting, as on a stage, flesh and...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520348738ISBN-10:520348737UPC:9780520348738Book Category:Performing Arts, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Theater, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, EuropeanBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCQ4MCDXKV
Richard Neuse is Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston.
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