On Seneca, Mussato, Trevet and the Boethian “Tragedies” of the De casibus hile good work has been done on the so-called Paduan prehu- manists since Billanovich put them in the critical spotlight half a century ago, 1. The Mirror is based on John Lydgate?s Fall of Princes (ca. 1431?39), itself a translation of Boccaccio?s De casibus virorum illustrium (ca. 1358) by way of Laurent de Premierfait?s French prose. CHAUCER'S EARLY POEM DE CASIBUS VIRORUMILLUSTRIUM by M. Seymour The title says it all. But though an early origin is widely assumed,1 the Monk's Tale is still treated (when at all) as the dramatic expression of its narrator,2 and investigations into its origins, the only other aspect of. Entries with 'casibus' overwrite: description of Monroe's apartment in New York (pp. 216- 18) injects high voltage into the de casibus tradition. 1989, Michael O'Neill, The human mind's imaginings: conflict. Such stories are known as de casibus tragedies, after the work by Boccaccio, De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (Examples of Famous Men), which is a collection of moral stories of those who fell from the heights of happiness. Both Shakespeare and Marlowe. created characters aware of the de casibus tradition.
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Founded in 1966, The Chaucer Review: A Journal of Medieval Studies and Literary Criticism publishes studies of the language, sources, historical and political contexts, social milieus, and aesthetics of Chaucer's poetry, as well as associated studies on medieval literature, philosophy, theology, and mythography relevant to an understanding of the poet, his contemporaries, his predecessors, and his audiences. The Chaucer Review is published quarterly by the Pennsylvania State University Press. Its editors are Susanna Fein (Kent State University) and David Raybin (Eastern Illinois University). As the leading journal of Chaucerian literary criticism, The Chaucer Review acts as a forum for the presentation of research on and concepts about Chaucer and the literature of the Middle Ages.
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