'Which Was the Mooste Fre' : Chaucer's Realistic Humour and Insight into Human Nature, as Shown in 'The Frankeleyns Tale'

Author / Editor
Veldhoen, N. H. G. E.

Title
'Which Was the Mooste Fre' : Chaucer's Realistic Humour and Insight into Human Nature, as Shown in 'The Frankeleyns Tale'

Published
J. Lachlan Mackenzie and Richard Todd, eds. In Other Words: Transcultural Studies in Philology, Translation, and Lexicology Presented to Hans Heinrich Meier on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday. (Dordrecht, Holland, and Providence, R.I.: Foris, 1989), pp. 107-16.

Description
Discusses the tradition and analogues of the "demande d'amour" of FranT, compares Chaucer's use, and concludes that the young lover Aurelius has the greatest claim to the honor of being "mooste fre," although the question is exceedingly complex.

Contributor
Mackenzie, J. Lachlan,
Todd, Richard,ed.
ed.

Alternative Title
In Other Words: Transcultural Studies in Philology, Translation, and Lexicology Presented to Hans Heinrich Meier on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.