Skirting Damnation, or the Speech and Speechlessness of Griselda in Chaucer's The Clerk's Tale

Author / Editor
Greenwood, Maria.

Title
Skirting Damnation, or the Speech and Speechlessness of Griselda in Chaucer's The Clerk's Tale

Published
Colette Stévanovitch and Henry Daniels, eds. L'Affect et le jugement: Mélanges offerts à Michel Morel à l'occasion de son départ à la retraite, 2 vols. (Paris: AMAES, 2005), 1: pp. 33-256.

Description
Surveys recent criticism of ClT, focusing on Griselda as allegory, as "a figure of divinity," and as a flat figure. Concludes that Griselda may simply be read as a real person.

Alternative Title
L'Affect et le jugement: Mélanges offerts à Michel Morel à l'occasion de son départ à la retraite.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale.