Despoiling Griselda: Chaucer's Walter and the Problem of Knowledge in 'The Clerk's Tale'

Author / Editor
Lynch, Kathryn L.

Title
Despoiling Griselda: Chaucer's Walter and the Problem of Knowledge in 'The Clerk's Tale'

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 10 (1988): 41-70.

Description
Reexamines ClT "from Walter's point of view"--that is, focusing on Walter as the center of the tale--suggesting that Chaucer, like Petrarch, his source, was concerned as much with epistemology or the quest for knowledge as with Griselda's fidelity.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.