Griselda and the Problem of the Human in the "Clerk’s Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Crocker, Holly A.
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