Women and Chaucer's Providence: The Clerk's Tale and The Knight's Tale

Author / Editor
La Farge, Catherine.

Title
Women and Chaucer's Providence: The Clerk's Tale and The Knight's Tale

Published
John Simons, ed. From Medieval to Medievalism (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992), pp. 69-81.

Description
Emelye and Griselda represent humankind. Theseus and Walter are figures of Boethian Providence, figures who implicate its inscrutability if not its caprice. By obscuring the boundaries of literary genres, Chaucer challenges traditional social, political, and spiritual analogies.

Contributor
Simons, John, ed.

Alternative Title
From Medieval to Medievalism.

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