The Griselda Legend in English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Bronfman, Judith.
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.