A Literary Comparison between Chaucer's "The Clerk's Tale" and Its Latin and French Originals.

Author / Editor
Ida, Hideho.

Title
A Literary Comparison between Chaucer's "The Clerk's Tale" and Its Latin and French Originals.

Published
Doshisha Global and Regional Studies Review 4 (2015): 45-65.

Description
Points out lines of ClT not included in either of the Latin and French sources and considers the meanings of these additions by Chaucer. Argues that Walter is characterized as stricter in ClT, and discusses the narrator Clerk's position in relation to the Wife of Bath. In Japanese, with English abstract.

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