Rank and Marriage: A Study of the Motif of 'Women Willfully Tested'
- Author / Editor
- Schleiner, Winfried.
Rank and Marriage: A Study of the Motif of 'Women Willfully Tested'
- Published
- Comparative Literature Studies 9 (1972): 365-75.
- Description
- Argues that the theme of testing female patience, found in ClT, Chretien's "Erec and Enide," and Robert Greene's "Friar Bacon and Friar Bongay," "demonstrates the interdependence of traditional motif, aesthetic sensibility, and societal structure." Chaucer alterations of his sources emphasize the poverty of Griselda and highlight the contrast with Walter's material wealth.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations