The Question of Closure in Fragment V of 'The Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Lee, Brian S.

Title
The Question of Closure in Fragment V of 'The Canterbury Tales'

Published
Yearbook of English Studies 22 (1992): 190-200.

Description
FranT is a rhetorical . . . completion" of SqT, which should itself be read with "rhetorical and lyrical" rather than narrative models in mind. The literate mode of Dorigen's complaint and Aurelius's two speeches to her contrasts with the oral mode of SqT.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale.
Squire and His Tale.