Humility and Obedience in the 'Clerk's Tale,' with the Envoy Considered as an Ironic Affirmation

Author / Editor
Rothman, Irving N.

Title
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