The Evil Tale of Evil Briselda: Griselda's Wicked Counterpart.
- Author / Editor
- Petrikova, Klara.
The Evil Tale of Evil Briselda: Griselda's Wicked Counterpart.
- Published
- Peter Brown and Jan Čermák, eds. England and Bohemia in the Age of Chaucer (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2023), pp. 159-67.
- Description
- Describes two fifteenth-century Czech "responses" to Petrarch's tale of Griselda, one in Latin and its translation into Czech: "Historia infidelis mulieris" and "O Bryzelde rec zla o zle" (An Evil Tale of Evil Briselda). Shows how "the Bohemian text is useful in unlocking themes and motifs circulating in medieval Europe which also found their way" into ClT, focusing on comparison of the Bohemian versions and Petrarch's, including the substitution of the name "Briselda" for "Griselda."
- Alternative Title
- England and Bohemia in the Age of Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations