Humility and Obedience in the 'Clerk's Tale,' with the Envoy Considered as an Ironic Affirmation
- Author / Editor
- Rothman, Irving N.
Humility and Obedience in the 'Clerk's Tale,' with the Envoy Considered as an Ironic Affirmation
- Published
- Papers on Language and Literature 9 (1973): 115-27.
- Description
- Observes structural and thematic parallels between ClT and its Envoy, arguing that both refute the Wife of Bath's attitudes, one through alternative perspective and the other through mockery.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and LIterary RElations