Fortitude and Sloth in the 'Wife of Bath's Tale' and the 'Clerk's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Gerke, Robert S.
Fortitude and Sloth in the 'Wife of Bath's Tale' and the 'Clerk's Tale'
- Published
- Proceedings of the International Patristic, Mediaeval, & Renaissance Conference 5 (1980): 119-35.
- Description
- The Clerk and his tale serve as a corrective to the Wife of Bath's philosophy by "exploiting a fictional and moral failure of nerve on the Wife's part," since it is not realism but weakness that motivates the Wife.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.