'Have Her My Trouthe--Til That Myn Herte Breste': Dorigen and the Difficulty of Keeping Promises in the Franklin's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Pakkala-Weckström, Mari.
'Have Her My Trouthe--Til That Myn Herte Breste': Dorigen and the Difficulty of Keeping Promises in the Franklin's Tale
- Published
- Helena Raumolin-Brunberg, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi, and Matti Rissanen, eds. Variation Past and Present: VARIENG Studies on English for Terttu Nevalainen. Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki, no. 61 (Helsinki: Société Néophilologique, 2002), pp. 287-300.
- Description
- In light of speech-act theory and the conventions of courtly literature, Dorigen's playful promise to Aurelius in FranT is not binding. Aurelius's own interpretation of the promise is willfully self-interested.
- Alternative Title
- Variation Past and Present: VARIENG Studies on English for Terttu Nevalainen.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.