Griselda and the Problem of the Human in the "Clerk’s Tale."

Author / Editor
Crocker, Holly A.

Title
Griselda and the Problem of the Human in the "Clerk’s Tale."

Published
Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 136-50.

Description
Argues that ClT offers a view of what it means to be human, and that Chaucer's view differs significantly from Petrarch’s presentation, in his translation of Boccaccio's Griselda story in the "Decameron," of Walter's cruelty and Griselda's patience in the face of that suffering.

Alternative Title
Cambridge Companion to The Canterbury Tales

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