Rewriting Griselda : From Folktale to Exemplum
- Author / Editor
- Filios, Denise Keyes.
Rewriting Griselda : From Folktale to Exemplum
- Published
- Mediaevalia 24 (2003): 45-73
- Description
- Filios compares the folktale of Griselda with four medieval versions, exploring their adaptations. Boccaccio's tale is eroticized, with the teller Dioneo disagreeing with the conventional happy ending that reinforces dangerous power relations; Petrarch valorizes both Griselda and her husband, reinforcing dominant power structures; ClT ironically celebrates unruly wives; and Christine de Pisan's version is a feminist reappropriation in which Griselda's strength leads to her husband's reform.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.