'If It Youre Wille Be': Coercion and Compliance in Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Sprung, Andrew.
'If It Youre Wille Be': Coercion and Compliance in Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale'
- Published
- Exemplaria 7 (1995): 345-69.
- Description
- The relationship between Walter and Griselda partially re-enacts the paradigm of a child's ego development.
- While Walter's inordinate tyranny is fueled by Griselda's inordinate compliance, an alternative model of domination is shown by the Clerk's own ordinate exercise of authority and his submission in his relations with the other pilgrims.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.