Dorigen's Lament and the Resolution of the Franklin's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Smith, Warren S.
Dorigen's Lament and the Resolution of the Franklin's Tale
- Published
- Chaucer Review 36 : 374-90, 2002.
- Description
- Far from being rambling, hasty, or incoherent, Dorigen's lament on faithful and faithless wives is a careful working out of the solution to her own dilemma. Starting with stories from Jerome's "Against Jovinian," she develops a favorable, Augustinian resolution: suicide is deplorable, but women are to be admired for loving their husbands, even to the point of death.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.