Promises, Promises: Dorigen's Dilemma Revisited
- Author / Editor
- Pulham, Carol A.
Promises, Promises: Dorigen's Dilemma Revisited
- Published
- Chaucer Review 31 (1996): 76-86.
- Description
- Argues that oral promises were binding in the largely oral, late-medieval culture and considers the contemporary "seriousness" of both Dorigen's marriage vow to Arveragus in FranT and her contradictory promise to Aurelius.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.