True and False 'Cheere' in Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Bestul, Thomas H.
True and False 'Cheere' in Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale'
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 82 (1983): 500-14.
- Description
- Chaucer's close attention to Griselda's and Walter's faces throughout ClT makes allegorical interpretation insufficient. Walter's false faces emphasize his duplicity and cruelty, contradicting his correspondence to a higher beneficent order; Griselda's expressions are often dissimulations, contradicting her correspondence to honest constancy.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.