Cross-Class Marriage and Class Abuse in the Griselda Story: From The Decameron to Patient Grissil
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The Griselda story has been generally regarded as an extreme example of patriarchal tyranny, but I claim that class hierarchy plays a no less important role in determining the abusive relationship between the couple. By comparing the 1599 play with previous stories, I argue that class antagonism is conspicuously amplified in the play, and that it is buttressed by dramatic devices such as new characters and added plots. Boccaccio and Chaucer do not render class antagonism overt in their stories. But John Phillip’s morality play externalizes it with the vice figure, and the 1599 play amplifies it into the courtly faction which opposes the marquis’s marriage to a maid of humble birth. Reversing the Gwalter-Grissil relations, the 1599 play also invents the subplot in which the wife’s dominant position is intertwined with her status superiority to her husband’s. In addition, I read the play as a vehicle of resistance to class abuse. By placing the 1599 play in the historical context, I demonstrate that the subversive elements are new features which the play acquires in the course of its adaptation to new circumstances of early modern England.
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The Griselda story has been generally regarded as an extreme example of patriarchal tyranny, but I claim that class hierarchy plays a no less important role in determining the abusive relationship between the couple. By comparing the 1599 play with previous stories, I argue that class antagonism is conspicuously amplified in the play, and that it is buttressed by dramatic devices such as new characters and added plots. Boccaccio and Chaucer do not render class antagonism overt in their stories. But John Phillip’s morality play externalizes it with the vice figure, and the 1599 play amplifies it into the courtly faction which opposes the marquis’s marriage to a maid of humble birth. Reversing the Gwalter-Grissil relations, the 1599 play also invents the subplot in which the wife’s dominant position is intertwined with her status superiority to her husband’s. In addition, I read the play as a vehicle of resistance to class abuse. By placing the 1599 play in the historical context, I demonstrate that the subversive elements are new features which the play acquires in the course of its adaptation to new circumstances of early modern England.
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