Walter at the Stake: A Reading of Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale'

Author / Editor
Van, Thomas A.

Title
Walter at the Stake: A Reading of Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale'

Published
Chaucer Review 22 (1988): 214-24.

Description
Walter is not just testing his wife but doing the worst he can imagine himself doing as a stage in achieving a better unity among the parts of himself and between his private and public selves.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale.