Extant Analogues of the Franklin's Tale in the Turkish Oral Tradition
- Author / Editor
- Walker, Warren S.
Extant Analogues of the Franklin's Tale in the Turkish Oral Tradition
- Published
- Chaucer Review 33: 432-37, 1999.
- Description
- Turkish tales that parallel the folkloric formula at the end of FranT-"Which was the noblest act?"-generally treat who is the most ignoble. So many Turkish stories fall into this category that Chaucer's Knight may have "previewed a performance" during one of his military campaigns.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.