Chaucer's Clerk's Tale: Interrogating 'Virtue' Through Violence
- Author / Editor
- Bodden, M. C.
Chaucer's Clerk's Tale: Interrogating 'Virtue' Through Violence
- Published
- Mark D. Meyerson, Daniel Thiery, and Oren Falk, eds. 'A Great Effusion of Blood'? Interpreting Medieval Violence (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2004), pp. 216-40.
- Description
- Bodden reads ClT as Chaucer's deconstruction of the violence of hagiography. Plot and purported allegory clash in the Tale, and Walter is concerned not with Griselda's obedience but with her outward show. Virtue without will is no virtue at all. The Envoy repudiates ClT, which is rife with the stuff of torture: spectacle, pain, and ritualized time.
- Contributor
- Meyerson, Mark D., ed.
- Thiery, Daniel, ed.
- Falk, Oren, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Great Effusion of Blood'? Interpreting Medieval Violence.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.