Griselda's Sisters : Wifely Patience and Sisterly Rivalry in English Tales and Ballads
- Author / Editor
- Valdés Miyares, Rubén.
Griselda's Sisters : Wifely Patience and Sisterly Rivalry in English Tales and Ballads
- Published
- SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Mediaeval English Language and Literature 8: 101-15, 2001.
- Description
- Explores two folkloric motifs in ClT and "Lay le Freine": the patient wife and twin sisters who are rivals in love. Rooted in the same myth, the stories imagine alternatives to patriarchal culture as well as dramatizing wifely obedience and female rivalry. Long surviving as popular ballads, they show how little sensibility changed with the rise of the Renaissance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.