Form and Interpretation in the 'Envoy' to the 'Clerk's Tale'

Author / Editor
Chickering, Howell.

Title
Form and Interpretation in the 'Envoy' to the 'Clerk's Tale'

Published
Chaucer Review 29 (1995): 352-72.

Description
A close reading of the Envoy to ClT underscores Chaucer's brilliant ambiguity and makes the assigning of it to a single speaker impossible.
Chaucer works with multiple strategies within ClT and ends it with a variety of interpretations as well.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale.