'And Speketh so Pleyn': The Clerk's Tale and Its Teller
- Author / Editor
- Ginsberg, Warren.
'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.