Chaucer's Clerk's Tale: Sources, Influences, and Allusions

Author / Editor
Goodwin, Amy W.

Title
Chaucer's Clerk's Tale: Sources, Influences, and Allusions

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 28 (2006): 231-35.

Description
Goodwin explores the practical problems of source study - terminology and the constraints of publication - in relation to ClT. Comments on Boccaccio's and Philippe de Mézières' Griselda stories as "sources of invention" for Chaucer's version.

Alternative Title
Colloquium: The Afterlife of Origins

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