Griselda's Pagan Virtue

Author / Editor
Shutters, Lynn.

Title
Griselda's Pagan Virtue

Published
Chaucer Review 44 (2009): 61-83.

Description
Chaucer modifies his sources for ClT in a way that emphasizes Griselda's virtue as specifically "feminine" and exclusively "wifely." The reflections of her wifely virtue in the pagan wives of LGW, who "view devotion to their husbands as their highest ideal," provoke a consideration of "the degree to which a married woman can and should be fully devoted to her husband."

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale
Legend of Good Women
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations