'Gentilesse' in Chaucer's 'Clerk's' and 'Merchant's Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Levy, Bernard S.
'Gentilesse' in Chaucer's 'Clerk's' and 'Merchant's Tales'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 11 (1977): 306-18.
- Description
- The Clerk responds to WBT by showing that "gentilesse" is found in humble virtue and obedience, as well as in noble birth. MerT, however, seeks to deny the underlying premise of these earlier tales by showing that "gentilesse" and happiness can never be found in marriage.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.