Love and Degree in the 'Franklin's Tale'

Author / Editor
Fyler, John M.

Title
Love and Degree in the 'Franklin's Tale'

Published
Chaucer Review 21 (1987): 321-37.

Description
Arveragus is a more fully developed character if we acknowledge his relatively low degree (compared with that of Dorigen). Class status also clarifies the teller's own status and his admiration for rhetoric.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale.