Essays on Chaucer, Boccaccio, and Shakespeare
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2016-04
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Faden, Allie
Grant, Rebecca
Greenwood, Cynthia
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The following video contains the session “Essays on Chaucer, Boccaccio, and Shakespeare” from the 2016 Second International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Thought at Sam Houston State University. The papers presented in this session are “The Audience Sets the Tone: Voice in Parliament of Fowles and The Squire’s Tale” by Allie Faden, “Feminism and The Decameron: Boccaccio’s Exploration of Gender Equality” by Rebecca Grant, and “Exploring the Bawdy Court Ethos in Measure for Measure’s Design: Putting the Church Court’s Newly Stringent Laws Governing Sex and Betrothal on Trial” by Cynthia Greenwood.
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Geoffrey Chaucer, medieval literature, Canterbury Tales, Boccaccio, The Decameron, Feminism, Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, ecclesiastical law, medieval literature, renaissance literature