Pleasing Virtue: The Problem of Word and Will in Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale'

Author / Editor
Goyne, Jo.

Title
Pleasing Virtue: The Problem of Word and Will in Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale'

Published
Bonnie Wheeler, ed. Feminea Medievalia I: Representations of the Feminine in the Middle Ages (Cambridge: Academia Press, 1993), pp. 139-60.

Description
Explores the limitations and parameters of word and will in ClT. Chaucer asserts that words must not encumber the will beyond its limited capacity, even in the service of virtue.

Alternative Title
Feminea Medievalia I: Representations of the Feminine in the Middle Ages.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale.