The Powers of Silence: The Case of the Clerk's Griselda

Author / Editor
Tuttle, Elaine.

Title
The Powers of Silence: The Case of the Clerk's Griselda

Published
Mary Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski, eds. Women and Power in the Middle Ages (Athens and London : University of Georgia Press, 1988), pp. 230-49.

Description
In ClT, Griselda paradoxically is able to achieve power only by submissiveness to Walter. As in LGW, Chaucer is equivocal about the power of women.

Alternative Title
Women and Power in the Middle Ages.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale.
Legend of Good Women.