The Consequences of 'Treuth': Reading Two Versions of the 'Clerk's Tale'

Author / Editor
McClellan, William.

Title
The Consequences of 'Treuth': Reading Two Versions of the 'Clerk's Tale'

Published
Genre 25 (1992): 153-78.

Description
The "presentational features" of MS HM 140 (prose format, absence of ClP, reduction of multivoiced discourse) transform its "mode of signification from performance to textuality," suggesting history and truth. This presentation radically alters the "message(s)" of ClT, which elsewhere suggests that women "are in the vanguard of the struggle for equity in earthly institutions."

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale.
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.