Note to The Taming of the Shrew, 2.1.295: "Grissel"


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Grissel: patient Griselda, the epitome of wifely obedience and devotion. Her story is told by the Clerk in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.




Walter makes Griselda promise to obey him always.
Illustration by Mary Eliza Haweis from the 1882 book Chaucer for Children.

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