The Franklin, Epicurus, and the Play of Values
- Author / Editor
- Ronquist, E. C.
The Franklin, Epicurus, and the Play of Values
- Published
- Robert Myles and David Williams, eds. Chaucer and Language: Essays in Honour of Douglas Wurtele (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001), pp. 44-60 and 192-98.
- Description
- A variety of ethical systems--Christian, Boethian, Epicurean, Ciceronian, etc.--were available to Chaucer's audience, and he engages these systems in ways that enable the audience to observe and choose among them. Like commentators on Epicurean thought, Chaucer cites Epicurus (in the Franklin's description in GP) to provoke his audience to ethical consideration.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and Language: Essays in Honour of Douglas Wurtele.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.