Chaucer and the Interpretation of Medieval Narrative: An Essay on the 'Clerk's Tale'

Author / Editor
Hackett, John P

Title
Chaucer and the Interpretation of Medieval Narrative: An Essay on the 'Clerk's Tale'

Published
DAI 33.03 (1972): 1169A.

Description
Surveys criticism of ClT in order to show the "inadequacy" of this criticism and reads the Tale as a "typological allegory" even though it goes steps beyond its sources in depicting the plot realistically.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations