Patient Mimesis: Griselda and the Clerk's Tale

Author / Editor
Ashton, Gail.

Title
Patient Mimesis: Griselda and the Clerk's Tale

Published
Chaucer Review 32(1998): 232-38.

Description
Griselda's response to Walter at crucial points in the narrative--when he has "killed" her children and when he has banished her from the palace so he can take another "wife"--underscores his appalling behavior and demonstrates the ways outward patience is "confoundingly deceptive."

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale.