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Traces the "representations of, and responses to" France and Frenchness in BD and Chaucer's Prioress, the Corpus Christi plays, Caxton's publishing career, the poetry of Stephen Hawes and John Skelton, and Shakespeare's history plays. English…

Defines the freedom of the lovers in TC as a freedom involving the will--the sensitive soul being passive or dark and the rational soul being active or light. The misery of Troilus and Criseyde is not unjust but results form their wrong choices.

After examining the original, rhetorical, and, and contextual meanings of "gentil" and its related words, Kanno discusses how Aurelius, who is at first destitute of generosity, is transformed into a gentle squire.

Contrasts the "opposing principles of conduct" that underlie the main characters in FranT and MerT, arguing that the "values" expressed there are "dramatized and explored" throughout CT. Moreover, the view of "gentilesse" expressed in FranT sums up…

Argues that the Franklin as narrator presents the characters in FranT as both "living people and as standard types from courtly romance," not worrying excessively about consistency of characterization and revealing more wisdom than we expect from…

An edition of FranPT, the description of the Franklin from the GP, and the endlink from the SqT, with notes and glosses. In his Introduction (pp. 1-47), Morgan comments on the "challenges" of reading Chaucer's poetry, the "modulation" of his poetic…

Version of FranT adapted for juvenile audience, illustrated by Philip Gough.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of FranT in Middle English and that this was re-issued on CD in 2010.

Responds to Dorothy Colmer's critique (Essays in Criticism 20 [1970]) of Kearney's earlier discussion of FranT (Essays in Criticism 19 [1969], taking issue with Colmer's notion that "quadruple irony" redounds upon the reader.

Textbook edition of FranPT and the GP description of the Franklin, with text in Middle English, notes and glossary, and discussion of the Franklin's character, possible sources of FranT, and Chaucer's "inventiveness." Includes several appendixes:…

Summary (without text) and commentary on FranT, arranged in sections, accompanied by glosses to Middle English phrases. Also includes a brief introduction to Chaucer and his backgrounds, commentary on themes and style of FranT, its characterization…

Recorded at the Seventh International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, University of Kent. Readers include A. C. Spearing; Mary-Ann Stouck; Tom Burton; William Cooper, Jr.; Harvey De Roo; Paul R. Thomas; and Emerson Brown, Jr. Re-edited and…

FranT, a part of the Marriage Group, which itself is part of a larger design in "patience" or "grace," demonstrates a subtle balance between the courtly tradition and "gentilesse" but does not give the final answer to the marriage debate.

Discusses FranT and its inclusion of the "sursanure", the superficially healed wound that nevertheless continues to fester. Suggests that this "sursanure" is "an exemplary Jamesonian symptom, the complex layerings of which invite readers to prise…

Argues that FranT depicts a "non-solution" to the "marriage debate"; although they seek to escape them in various ways, the characters are not free from the "tyrannies of love" and sexuality that are part of the human condition.

Text of FranT and the GP description of the Franklin (based on Robinson's edition, 1957) with end-of-text notes and glosses. The Introduction (pp. 1-76) describes the sources and analogues of FranT; the Breton lai genre; the tale's major themes of…

Study guide to FranPT and the GP description of the Franklin that includes a plot synopsis, running commentary, and glosses (text not included, except for three passages in Middle English, with closer analysis). Also includes descriptions of the…

School-text edition of the GP description of the Franklin and FranPT, accompanied, on facing pages, by extensive glossing and pedagogical commentary and discussion questions. Includes brief essays on pertinent topics, including gentilesse, astronomy…

Clarifies the Franklin's "morning dish" of a "wine-sop," suggesting dietary or medicinal implications necessary to compensate for his culinary excesses.

Chaucer's somewhat unusual association of his Franklin with food may reflect the frequent migration of the Exchequer from Westminster to York and the prioritizing of the York food trade as a result. The Franklin may have been a York franklin who…

A variety of ethical systems--Christian, Boethian, Epicurean, Ciceronian, etc.--were available to Chaucer's audience, and he engages these systems in ways that enable the audience to observe and choose among them. Like commentators on Epicurean…

The analogies between the Franklin and Dorigen allow Chaucer to relate class to gender and to explore the ways romance imagines the possibilities and the constraints of self-definition.

Examines current scholarship to illuminate the portrait of the Franklin in GP, arguing that it reflects Chaucer's various opinions about "the social position of franklins in real life" and "the roles Chaucer has its Franklin perform" in FranT.

Shows that Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew" and the anonymous "Taming of a Shrew" feature skeptical parody of Stoic certainty about distinguishing reality from illusion or dream. As in HF, the "framing fictions" of the plays "make a show" of…

CT is treated, along with the "Decameron," in part 2, chapter 4, following background analysis of "One Thousand and One Nights" in Arabic tradition and preceding consideration of Cervantes and Borges.