Assignment task: Decameron Day 4
Decameron Fourth Day, First Story
Form Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron (Norton Critical Edition)
LOOK AT the Day 4 sample story - Story 1 (Ghismunda & Tancredi) CLOSELY
Q1. How does your sample story typify the Day you are working on? (You may want to provide a very brief summary of the story first).
Q2. In what way does the sample story incorporate the themes given in the Translator's Introduction?
Q3. Using textual evidence, what can you add to the interpretation of the story given by the lecture slides?
Q4. Does anything contradict this interpretation? Can you suggest any alternate interpretations?
Q5. Using these interpretations, what themes, motifs, running images, metaphors, or parallels can you find that are not identified by the slides already?