Satisfaction and Payment in Middle English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Mann, Jill.
Satisfaction and Payment in Middle English Literature
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 5 (1983): 17-48.
- Description
- Both "Pearl" and ClT use comparatives for contrasts with a notion of satisfaction signified by the words "enough" and "suffisaunce." The set of related words in ClT, including "sadness," "suffraunce," "outrely," and other words of degree and fulfillment, extends the theme and demonstrates that Griselda's "insatiability" arises from her own sense of satisfaction.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.