Pleasing Virtue: The Problem of Word and Will in Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Goyne, Jo.
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.