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• W2027634562 abstract "Long ago, George Lyman Kittredge pointed out the links between the Wife of Bath's statement about clerks and marriage and the Clerk's choosing to tell another clerk's tale of a marriage quite different from the Wife's ideal.' If the Clerk's Tale turns out ultimately to be concerned with spiritual rather than mundane relationships, and Griselda's example is to show us how to live with God rather than with a spouse, the immediate context is a marriage, and the tale concerns questions of governance, power, dominance, and submission. The Wife of Bath, of course, contends that the wife should dominate, using force and guile when necessary to keep the husband submissive. However, insofar as the Clerk's Tale does concern an earthly marriage, the clear implication is that the husband should rule: the harshness of Walter's treatment of Griselda is criticized, but his sovereignty, his right to dominate, is never challenged. Yet at the end of the tale, the Clerk suddenly upsets our expectations. Instead of endorsing Griselda's patient subservience to male authority, he sings the Envoy in praise of the Wife of Bath, Whos lyf and al hire secte God mayntene / In heigh (E 1171-72).2 The Envoy's praise of the Wife is clearly ironic, but there is another, more subtle irony here which hinges on the word maistrie and what the term meant to Chaucer and his audience. That audience would have recognized the relationship of maistrie to other terms related to power, dominance, and submission; they would have noticed how the poet used (or purposefully misused) such words to achieve his special ends. Careful attention to six such words, maistrie, soveraynetee, servage, servyse, governance, and assente, sheds light on the tales of the Wife, the Clerk, and others while revealing even closer links between those tales than have been shown in the past, thematic links established through diction. When the Clerk is asked by the Host to tell his tale, he replies, Hooste, . I am under youre yerde; / Ye han of us as now the (E 22-23). Charles Muscatine suggests that this is an example of the Clerk's own tendency to be obedient;3 doubtless it is, but it also picks up the diction both of the Wife of Bath at the end of her Prologue: He yaf me al the bridel in myn hond, / To han the governance of hous and lond (D 813-14) and of the knight speaking to the hag at the end of the Wife's Tale: My lady and my love, and wyf so deere, / I put me in youre wise (D 1230-31). While this diction links the Clerk's Tale back to the Wife's Tale, the idea of being under control or governance of another looks ahead to an important theme in the tale of Griselda which follows. A further link is established by the use in the Clerk's Prologue of a related term, assente, which then appears seven times in the first five hundred lines of the Clerk's" @default.
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• W2027634562 title "The Semantics of Power: Maistrie and Soveraynetee in The Canterbury Tales" @default.
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