Griselda Reads Philippa de Coucy

Author / Editor
Morse, Charlotte C.

Title
Griselda Reads Philippa de Coucy

Published
R. F. Yeager and Charlotte C. Morse, eds. Speaking Images: Essays in Honor of V. A. Kolve (Asheville, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2001), pp. 347-92.

Description
Identifies "uncanny" resemblances between Griselda of ClT and Philippa de Coucy, wife of Robert de Vere. Similarities between the women and their treatment at the hands of their husbands (divorces) would have prompted Chaucer's immediate audience to "reflect on the political situation" in England. Events in Philippa's life may have influenced Chaucer's translation of his sources.

Alternative Title
Speaking Images: Essays in Honor of V. A. Kolve.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.