The Griselda Story in Boccaccio, Petrarch and Chaucer

Author / Editor
Kirkpatrick, Robin.

Title
The Griselda Story in Boccaccio, Petrarch and Chaucer

Published
Chaucer and the Italian Trecento (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 231-48.

Description
Although Chaucer's version of the Griselda story closely follows that of Petrarch, ClT makes the marquis less sympathetic and Griselda more so.

Alternative Title
Chaucer and the Italian Trecento.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.