Oxford Dictionary of Reference and Allusion
Andrew Delahunty
MARK POUGATCH The Times 2004 Griselda [Lit.] The heroine of the last tale of Boccaccio's Decameron (1353), used by Chaucer for 'The Clerk's Tale' (c.1387) in The Canterbury Tales. Griselda's husband, the Marquis Walter, subjects her to ...