Binding: Paperback
Description: Thus she was decapitated and this was the end to which she was brought by her unbridled lusts. For over two centuries after Boccaccio's groundbreaking Decameron the Italian novella exercised a crucial influence over European prose fiction. With thirty - nine stories by nineteen authors many translated for the first time this anthology presents tales from the whole genre and period. Here we meet a rich cast of humble peasants and shrewd craftsmen frustrated wives libidinous friars ill - fated lovers and vengeful nobles. These works had a considerable impact in English and the selection includes tales that have provided sources for Chaucer Shakespeare Webster Marston Dryden Byron and Keats. The typical novella is situated in a precise time and place and features people who either existed historically or are presumed to have done so. The subject - matter whether ribald or sentimental comic or tragic often reflects the social and economic conditions of its age and thus the novella has been seen as a crucial stage in the development of fictional realism and the emergence of the novel
Title: Italian Renaissance Tales
Brand: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198794967
Pages: 384 Pages
Publication Date: 1/1/2020
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Category: Fiction In Translation