Array as Motif in the 'Clerk's Tale'

Author / Editor
Wallace, Kristine Gilmartin.

Title
Array as Motif in the 'Clerk's Tale'

Published
Rice University Studies 62.2 (1976): 99-110.

Description
For Walter and Griselda clothing has both "political/social" and "spiritual/personal" meanings which symbolize stages in their relationship. When Walter sees that Griselda remains virtuous beneath the array of fine clothing and social status which he gave her when he married her, he no longer needs to test her.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale.