Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale": The Griselda Story Received, Rewritten, Illustrated

Author / Editor
Bronfman, Judith.

Title
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.