Chaucer's 'Franklin's Tale': 'Trouthe,' 'Routhe,' and the 'Rokkes Blakke'

Author / Editor
Kearney, John.

Title
Chaucer's 'Franklin's Tale': 'Trouthe,' 'Routhe,' and the 'Rokkes Blakke'

Published
South African Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 4 (1994): 95-107

Description
In FranT, the seriatim pity of the characters makes it possible for others to move through the worldly truth that it is necessary to suffer in time, toward the greater truth of unchanging stability. The rocks represent the need for worldly suffering.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale.