An Analogue to Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Bornstein, Diane.
An Analogue to Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 15 (1981): 322-31.
- Description
- Christine de Pizan uses the Griselda tale to illustrate the virtues of patience and constancy in her "Livre de la Cite des Dames," derived from a French prose version of Philippe de Mezieres, perhaps also consulting the anonymous French prose translation, Chaucer's main source.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.