Chaucer's Genial Franklin

Author / Editor
Green, Joe.

Title
Chaucer's Genial Franklin

Published
Platte Valley Review 21 (Winter 1993): 6-16.

Description
In GP, Sq-FranL, and FranP, Chaucer characterizes the Franklin as obsessed "with appearances and good feeling." FranT manifests these obsessions and exposes the teller's "superficial understanding of 'gentilesse'."

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale.