The Psychological Basis of the 'Clerk's Tale'

Author / Editor
Pearlman, E.

Title
The Psychological Basis of the 'Clerk's Tale'

Published
Chaucer Review 11 (1977): 248-57.

Description
The psychological condition of ClT must be understood in terms of fourteenth-century, not twentieth-century, psychology. The relationship between Griselda and Walter can be compared to a man-to-God, child-to-parent, or colonial-to-colonizer relationhsip.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale.