'And Speketh so Pleyn': The Clerk's Tale and Its Teller

Author / Editor
Ginsberg, Warren.

Title
'And Speketh so Pleyn': The Clerk's Tale and Its Teller

Published
Criticism 20 (1978): 307-23.

Description
The interpretive problems with ClT--our ambivalence between human sympathy for Griselda and recognition of the poem's stern moral import--stem largely from the teller himself, whose additions to the source in Petrarch indicate that he does not fully understand the tale he tells.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale.