The Victim's Side: Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale and Webster's 'Duchess of Malfi'

Author / Editor
Hawkins, Harriett.

Title
The Victim's Side: Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale and Webster's 'Duchess of Malfi'

Published
Signs 1 (1975): 339-61.

Description
Although allegorical and historical justifications have been given for Griselda's suffering in ClT, the story is Chaucer's attack on the tyranny and injustice of her situation. In a different way, Webster condemns tyrannical persecution in the "Duchess of Malfi."

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale.