John Lydgate Reads 'The Clerk's Tale'

Author / Editor
Stavsky, Jonathan.

Title
John Lydgate Reads 'The Clerk's Tale'

Published
SAC 34 (2012): 209-46.

Description
Provides an "anatomy of Lydgate's engagement with" ClT, documenting his "many Griseldas": muse, "haughty beloved," "antithesis of contemporary women," "exemplary spouse," woman who "falls short of being the Virgin Mary," "victim of misrepresentation," and model for Lydgate's "own conception of poetry."

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Clerk and His Tale