Griselda's Afterlife, or the Relationship between Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale, Chaucer's "The Clerk's Tale" and the "Tale of Magic."
- Author / Editor
- Wicher, Andrzej.
Griselda's Afterlife, or the Relationship between Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale, Chaucer's "The Clerk's Tale" and the "Tale of Magic."
- Published
- Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture 11 (2021): 334-52.
- Description
- Offers "folkloric analysis" of several motifs--slaughtered wives, lost and restored children, and incest--in ClT and in "The Winter's Tale" (and other Shakespearean plays), arguing that such analysis allows us "to see these texts in connection with particular archetypal patterns that make certain crucial elements of their plots stand out in relief." The female protagonist in each plot "may . . . be said to have saved" her husband from himself.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations