The Griselda Legend in English Literature

Author / Editor
Bronfman, Judith.

Title
The Griselda Legend in English Literature

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 38 (1977): 2105A-06A.

Description
When the Griselda legend first appears in English literature, in ClT, Griselda is praised for her patience. In subsequent versions, as the centuries pass, her patience loses its moral worth and comes to be equated with unhealthy submissiveness.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale.