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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Clerk's Tale"”.
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"And Gladly Wolde He Teche": Chaucer's Use of Source Materials in the "Clerk's Tale."
… works provoke such animosity as does his “Clerk’s Tale.” Modern critics are divided by the social and gender issues that to which the tale lends itself. However, the tale was immensely popular to Middle Age audiences and was one of the best loved of the Canterbury Tales. Therefore, to …
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Whose Clothes Are They Wearing Anyway? Sartorial Exchange, Disguise, and Accumulation in Chaucer's The Clerk's Tale and Dickens's Our Mutual Friend
… physical bodies. Geoffrey Chaucer's <italic>The Clerk's Tale</italic> and Charles Dickens's <italic>Our Mutual Friend</italic> both utilize clothing to construct gendered characters through the clothes they wear. By placing these two disparate texts in conversation, I examine the exchange of …
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Courtly constraints: clothing, gifts and honour in Medieval Romance
… de Troyes' Erec and Enide, Geoffrey Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale", and the anonymous Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, I seek to demonstrate how clothing, honour, gender and gifts shape the experiences of the characters as they find their social place, and disrupt the body as a category on which to …