Why Marquis Walter Treats His Wife So Badly

Author / Editor
Green, Richard Firth.

Title
Why Marquis Walter Treats His Wife So Badly

Published
ChauR 47.1 (2012): 48-62.

Description
Presents a version of the Griselda story from Thomas III, Marquis of Saluzzo (c. 1355-1416) in "Le chevalier errant," and analyzes how fourteenth-century audiences would have reacted to Chaucer's version in ClT. Includes a translation of Thomas's version of Griselda's story.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations