Love, 'Trouthe,' and the Happy Ending of the 'Franklin's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Flake, Timothy H.
Love, 'Trouthe,' and the Happy Ending of the 'Franklin's Tale'
- Published
- English Studies 77 (1996): 209-26.
- Description
- Challenges the discussion of Angela M. Lucas and Peter J. Lucas (SAC 15 [1993], no. 215), arguing that the marriage of Dorigen and Arveragus "is a poetic expression of freedom and love brought to life by the power of 'trouthe'," a force so much greater than illusion that it converts the squire and the magician to 'gentilesse'. The source of the happy ending is in the way these virtues are presented by the Franklin.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.