The Artists' Ideal Griselda
- Author / Editor
- Whitaker, Muriel.
The Artists' Ideal Griselda
- Published
- Muriel Whitaker, ed. Sovereign Lady: Essays on Women in Middle English Literature (New York and London: Garland, 1995), pp. 85-114.
- Physical Description
- 6 b&w plates.
- Description
- Iconographic imagery in ClT indicates Griselda's exemplary physical, moral, and spiritual beauty.
- British paintings, from 1721 onward, have created various Griseldas--betrayed, patient, virginal, and sexually victimized.
- Sculptors have idealized her beyond recognition.
- Alternative Title
- Sovereign Lady: Essays on Women in Middle English Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.