'Aventure' or 'Grace': Lucky in Love in the 'Franklin's Tale'

Author / Editor
Singer, Margaret.

Title
'Aventure' or 'Grace': Lucky in Love in the 'Franklin's Tale'

Published
Geraldine Barnes, John Gunn, Sonya Jensen, and Lee Jobling, eds. Words and Wordsmiths: A Volume for H. L. Rogers (Sydney: University of Sydney, 1989): pp. 113-18.

Description
FranT is comedic in structure from first to last since all the events are equally lucky for all the characters by the end of the tale. Noble gestures are made, even by the magician,but neither harm nor disadvantage results for any of those who make them, for no sacrifices are ever exacted.

Alternative Title
Words and Wordsmiths: A Volume for H. L. Rogers.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale.