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Encyclopedia > The Clerk's Prologue and Tale

'The Clerk's Tale' is the first tale of Group E in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. It is followed by the Merchant's Tale. The Clerk of Oxenford (modern Oxford) is a student of what would nowadays be considered philosophy or theology. He tells the tale of Griselda, a young woman whose husband tests her loyalty in a series of bizarre torments that recall the Biblical book of Job. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Canterbury Tales Woodcut 1484 The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse). ... The Merchant The Merchants Prologue and Tale is one of Geoffrey Chaucers Canterbury Tales. ... Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 (2001 census). ... This article is 58 kilobytes or more in size. ... Theology (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογια, logia, words, sayings, or discourse) is reasoned discourse concerning religion, spirituality and God or the gods. ... The Book of Job (איוב) is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible. ...


Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.


The Host asks the Clerk of Oxford to narrate a tale in plain style. The Clerk announces a tale that he has learned from another clerk.


The Clerk's tale is about a marquis called Walter. Lord Walter is a bachelor who is asked by his subjects to marry in order to provide a heir. Lord Walter assents and marries a poor girl called Griselda. Griselda is a poor girl, who is noticed by Walter a Marquis, who asks for her hand in marriage, but in order for Griselda to have the life of a bourgeoise she must promise silent submission to him.


After some time, Walter starts testing Griselda's patience. Ultimately, the clerk's tale is about unconditional female submissiveness.



After Griselda bears a daughter, Walter decides to test her loyalty to him. He sends an officer to take the baby, pretending to kill her, and take it in secret to Bologna. Griselda makes no protest at this. When she bears a son several years later, the Marquis again has him taken from her. Bologna (IPA , from Latin Bononia, Bulåggna in Emiliano-Romagnolo) is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, in the Pianura Padana, between the Po River and the Apennines, exactly between the Reno River and the Sàvena River. ...


Finally, Walter determines one last test. He has a Papal bull of annulment forged which enables him to leave Griselda, and informs her that he intends to remarry. He requires her to prepare the wedding for his new bride. Secretly, he has the children returned from Bologna, and he presents his daughter as his intended wife. Eventually he informs Griselda of the deceit, and (perhaps improbably) they live happily ever after. Papal bull of Pope Urban VIII, 1637, sealed with a leaden bulla. ... Annulment is a legal procedure for declaring a marriage null and void. ...


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Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
General Prologue | The Knight's Tale | The Miller's Tale | The Reeve's Tale | The Cook's Tale | The Man of Law's Tale | The Wife of Bath's Tale | The Friar's Tale | The Summoner's Tale | The Clerk's Tale | The Merchant's Tale | The Squire's Tale | The Franklin's Tale | The Physician's Tale | The Pardoner's Tale | The Shipman's Tale | The Prioress' Tale | Chaucer's Tale of Sir Topas | The Tale of Melibee | The Monk's Tale | The Nun's Priest's Tale | The Second Nun's Tale | The Canon's Yeoman's Tale | The Manciple's Tale | The Parson's Tale | Chaucer's Retraction
Other works
The Book of the Duchess | The House of Fame | Anelida and Arcite | The Parliament of Fowls | Boece | The Romaunt of the Rose | Troilus and Criseyde | The Legend of Good Women | Treatise on the Astrolabe
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The Summoner's Prologue and Tale		 The Canterbury Tales Succeeded by
The Merchant's Prologue and Tale

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The Reeve's Prologue and Tale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (804 words)
The Reeve's Prologue and Tale is the third story to be told in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
The tale is based on a popular fabliau of the period with many different versions, the "cradle-trick".
The northern accents of the two clerks is also the earliest surviving attempt in English to record a dialect from an area other than that of the main writer.
The Clerk's Prologue and Tale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (503 words)
He tells the tale of Griselda, a young woman whose husband tests her loyalty in a series of bizarre torments that recall the Biblical book of Job.
As the Clerk says in his prologue, the source of the tale is Petrarch.
The Man of Law's tale on the Lady Constance also uses the theme of the long suffering woman but that story is told elaborately with many rhetorical flourishes whereas the clerks tale is told more simply as the Host requests.
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