Chaucer's Franklin's Magician and The Tempest : An Influence Beyond Appearances?

Author / Editor
Hillman, Richard.

Title
Chaucer's Franklin's Magician and The Tempest : An Influence Beyond Appearances?

Published
Shakespeare Quarterly 34 (1983): 426-32.

Description
Posits FranT as a major source for Shakespeare play, focusing on similarities between the two magicians. Revised version published as "Deceiving Appearances: Neo-Chaucerian Magic in 'The Tempest'," in Hillman's Intertextuality and Romance in Renaissance Drama: The Staging of Nostalgia (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992), pp. 124-35.

Alternative Title
"Deceiving Appearances: Neo-Chaucerian Magic in 'The Tempest'."
Intertextuality and Romance in Renaissance Drama: The Staging of Nostalgia.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale.
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.