Reading Griselda's Smocks in the Clerk's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Hodges, Laura F.
Reading Griselda's Smocks in the Clerk's Tale
- Published
- Chaucer Review 44 (2009): 84-109.
- Description
- Hodges "reads" Griselda's "sartorial transformation[s]" in light of detailed knowledge of fourteenth-century material culture. For instance, the fact that a smock could be made of plain linen or embroidered silk, or that it was the innermost of many layers of noblewomen's apparel, heightens drama and underscores symbolism.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale