Chaucer's Clerk, on the Level?
- Author / Editor
- Haines, Victor Yelverton.
Chaucer's Clerk, on the Level?
- Published
- Robert Myles and David Williams, eds. Chaucer and Language: Essays in Honour of Douglas Wurtele (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001), pp. 83-106 and 203-05.
- Description
- Examines several medieval notions of testing and promise-making, arguing that in ClT the Clerk makes fun of naive "essentialist" allegory. Haines reads wit and sarcasm in Griselda's tone at the "portentous" line 666 and suggests that this tone helps lead readers to reject her immoral submission to Walter.
- Contributor
- Myles, Robert, ed.
- Williams, David, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and Language: Essays in Honour of Douglas Wurtele.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.