The Clerk's Tale: Rewritten Griselda Story.
- Author / Editor
- Sasamoto, Hisayuki.
The Clerk's Tale: Rewritten Griselda Story.
- Published
- Hideshi Ohno, Kazuho Mizuno, and Osamu Imabayashi, eds. The Pleasure of English Language and Literature: A Festschrift for Akiyuki Jimura (Hiroshima: Keisuisha, 2018), pp. 319-33.
- Description
- Focuses on how ClT differs from its two sources, Petrarch's "Historia Griseldis" and its anonymous French translation "Le livre Griseldis," and argues that Chaucer adds his original expression of the characters' emotion so as to encourage the audience to feel pity for Griselda.
- Alternative Title
- The Pleasure of English Language and Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations