'It Is True Art To Conceal Art': The Episodic Structure of Chaucer's 'Franklin's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Brown, Carole Koepke.
'It Is True Art To Conceal Art': The Episodic Structure of Chaucer's 'Franklin's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 27 (1992): 162-85.
- Description
- FranT contains a system of alternating parallel events--troth-plighting, complaint, and compassionate help--repeated in threes, reinforcing the theme of "gentilesse." The "trouthe" and "complaint" episodes show a "progressive decline," but the "helpers" episodes demonstrate a contrasting ascendancy brought about by "gentilesse practiced," thus making "gentle deeds" a major force in the Tale.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.