Geoffrey Chaucer, The Clerk's Tale: Notes

Author / Editor
Wilcockson, Colin.

Title
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