Love, Marriage, and Law: Three Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
McCarthy, Conor.

Title
Love, Marriage, and Law: Three Canterbury Tales

Published
English Studies 83 : 504-18, 2002.

Description
FranT raises problems rather than providing a solution in the Marriage Group. Like ClT, it poses "a problematic marriage agreement" at the outset; like MerT, it shows that disastrous consequences can result from introducing non-marital love into a marital relationship.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale.
Clerk and His Tale.
Merchant and His Tale.