The Clerk's Tale: For Better or Worse
- Author / Editor
- Chessell, Del.
The Clerk's Tale: For Better or Worse
- Published
- Critical Review 29 (1989): 77-89.
- Description
- Outrage at Walter's treatment of Griselda, seeing Griselda's story as a religious allegory of patience, even seeing it as a folk tale rewritten--such responses indicate that ClT is a poem "divided against itself." One way to resolve these conflicts is to see the tale as the "center of the marriage group," illustrating the perilous nature of marriage and the vulnerability of the partners in it to pain and betrayal.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.