Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale": The Griselda Story Received, Rewritten, Illustrated
- Author / Editor
- Bronfman, Judith.
Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale": The Griselda Story Received, Rewritten, Illustrated
- Published
- New York: Garland, 1994.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 162 pp. ; illus.
- Description
- Studies the origin and development of the Griselda story from the fourteenth through the twentieth century.
- Surveys topics including the Italian and French sources before Chaucer; twentieth-century critical interpretations of ClT that read the "Tale" as allegory, religious exemplum, or political commentary; literary rewritings of the story by such diverse writers as John Lydgate, Christine de Pizan, John Phillips, Thomas Dekker, Maria Edgeworth, Elizabeth Barett Browning, and Oscar Hammerstein; and artistic representations as seen in twenty-five plates that retell the story.
- An appendix includes the text of "A Most Pleasant Ballad of Patient Grissell."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.