The Real "Clerk’s Tale"; or, Patient Griselda Explained.

Description: Presents ClT as an "elaborate academic joke," concerned primarily with proper submission to "God's law," reading Griselda as "pathetic rather than virtuous," satirized by the Clerk for submitting herself and (as she thinks) her children to Walter, who is cruel and sinful. The tale is a "counterpiece" to the WBPT and engages the other tales of "Marriage Group," even though sovereignty in marriage in not the essential focus.