Boccaccio's 'Filocolo' and the Moral Argument of the 'Franklin's Tale'

Author / Editor
Morgan, Gerald.

Title
Boccaccio's 'Filocolo' and the Moral Argument of the 'Franklin's Tale'

Published
Chaucer Review 20 (1986): 285-306.

Description
If we recall the Thomistic distinctions among vows, oaths, and promises and if we focus on action rather than on character, the long complaints in FranT can be seen as essential to the structure rather than as excrescences.

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