The Clerk's 'Gentil Tale' Heard Again
- Author / Editor
- Swan, Marjorie E.
The Clerk's 'Gentil Tale' Heard Again
- Published
- English Studies in Canada 13 (1987): 136-46.
- Description
- In telling his tale, the Clerk gradually abandons his allegorical refutation of the Wife's view of marriage by becoming more critical of Walter and more sympathetic to the human plight of Griselda, whom he comes to regard as an embodiment of natural "gentilesse."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.