This technique alerts the reader to the fact that the second portion of Boccaccio’s tale is the portion that must be given a new spin. The Knight, the narrator of Chaucer’s tale, opts to skim over the battle scenes because he has “a large feeld to ere” (886). In the Oxford Guides to Chaucer, Helen Cooper notes that “‘The Knight’s Tale’ tells the same story at less than a quarter of the length (65).” One example of how Chaucer shortens the tale is by offering only a brief description of Theseus’s conquest of the Amazons and his return to the city, which takes Boccaccio two books to depict. Though the basic plot is the same, Chaucer is very selective in what he chooses to tell his audience. In “The Knight’s Tale”, featured in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Chaucer tells his own version of Boccaccio’s Teseida.
0 kommentar(er)
