The Performance of Social Class: Domestic Violence in the Griselda Story.
- Author / Editor
- Fulton, Helen.
The Performance of Social Class: Domestic Violence in the Griselda Story.
- Published
- Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association 106 (2006): 25-42.
- Description
- Assesses the late-medieval and early modern popularity of the "story of Griselda" as an exploration of the "paradox of her non-noble status and her fitness to hold the moral high ground" and a reflection of anxiety "about marriages based on unequal social status." Examines social class and domestic abuse in ClT, versions by Boccaccio and Petrarch, and later adaptations, considering emphases, similarities, and differences
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations