Geoffrey Chaucer, The Clerk's Tale: Notes
- Author / Editor
- Wilcockson, Colin.
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Clerk's Tale: Notes
- Published
- Harlow: Longman, 1987.
- Physical Description
- 64 pp.
- Series
- York Notes.
- Description
- Study guide to ClT that includes a plot summary and glosses (text not included), and commentary on various subjects: the patient wife as a literary motif, characterization in ClT, medieval clerks, linguistic and stylistic features of ClT (including tag phrases, use of ye/thou, and the historical present), and suggestions for study and further reading.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale