From the 'Clerk's Tale' to 'The Winter's Tale'

Author / Editor
Baldwin, Anna.

Title
From the 'Clerk's Tale' to 'The Winter's Tale'

Published
Ruth Morse and Barry Windeatt, eds. Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp.199-212.

Description
By looking at two surviving "Patient Grissel" plays, the prose chapbook, and the ballad on the same subject, Baldwin shows that the popularity of Chaucer's ClT extended into the sixteenth century. Greene loosely modeled his "Pandosto" on the story of Patient Grissel. Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale," though based on "Pandosto" and though close to Phillip's and Dekker's Grissel plays, is even closer to ClT.

Alternative Title
Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
Clerk and His Tale.
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.