The Clerk and His Tale: Some Literary Contexts
- Author / Editor
- Middleton, Anne.
The Clerk and His Tale: Some Literary Contexts
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 2 (1980): 121-50.
- Description
- Examines medieval redactions of Boccaccio's Griselda story to suggest that Chaucer retells it in order to raise literary questions analogous to moral ones. The Clerk combines Petrarch's affective purpose and high style with the exemplary force and plain style of the French version in an attempt to create a tale with the "best sentence and moost solace."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.