Chaucer's Use of the Epistle of St. James in the 'Clerk's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- McNamara, John.
Chaucer's Use of the Epistle of St. James in the 'Clerk's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 7.3 (1973): 184-93.
- Description
- Reads ClT as a "dramatization" of the teaching of St. James' epistle: the testing of faith "begets patience." Despite Walter's cruelty, he is God's "unwitting agent" in effecting Griselda's faith and obedience.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations