Domestic Treachery in the 'Clerk's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Ellis, Deborah S.
Domestic Treachery in the 'Clerk's Tale'
- Published
- Carole Levin and Jeanie Watson, eds. Ambiguous Realities (Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 1987), pp. 99-113.
- Description
- Associations of the home and domestic situation with "ambiguity, insecurity, and women's vulnerability" are most effective in TC and ClT. In the medieval home, the hall was the domain of the male and open to public affairs; the chamber was the female's domain. In ClT, Griselda loses all control, even over the chamber. Domestic treachery is also a feature in MerT, PhyT, and WBT.
- Alternative Title
- Ambiguous Realities.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Troilus and Criseyde.