Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale' and the Monstrous Critics

Author / Editor
Baker, Denise N.

Title
Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale' and the Monstrous Critics

Published
Postscripts 3 (1986): 61-68.

Description
The two modes of ClT must not be confused. The allegorical mode culminates in the Clerk's moral of Griselda as an example for all Christians, male or female; the literal mode culminates in the Clerk's implicit criticism of Walter's imperiousness as husband in the Clerk's envoy.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale.