The Logic of the Clerk's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Morgan, Gerald.
The Logic of the Clerk's Tale
- Published
- Modern Language Review 104 (2009): 1-25.
- Description
- Reads ClT as a disquisition on the "moral virtue of obedience" and the "triumph of patience," commenting on Griselda as a personification, Walter as a figure of fortune, and the sergeant as an example of false obedience. Examines each scene and observes where Chaucer modifies his sources to produce a sample of "philosophical enquiry and moral idealism," appropriate to the Clerk.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations