The Rocks in the 'Franklin's Tale' and Ovid's Medea
- Author / Editor
- Bleeth, Kenneth A.
The Rocks in the 'Franklin's Tale' and Ovid's Medea
- Published
- American Notes and Queries 20 (1982): 130-31.
- Description
- In adapting the fourth "question d'amore" of the "Filocolo" into the story of FranT, Chaucer changed the task from a flowering garden in January to "remoeve alle the rokkes" from the Brittany coast. Chaucer may have derived this idea from Ovid's Met. 7.202-205, also a source for the "Filocolo" itself.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.