Magic and Metafiction in the Franklin's Tale: Chaucer's Clerk of Orléans as Double of the Franklin

Author / Editor
Battles, Paul.

Title
Magic and Metafiction in the Franklin's Tale: Chaucer's Clerk of Orléans as Double of the Franklin

Published
Timothy S. Jones and David A. Sprunger, eds. Marvels, Monsters, and Miracles: Studies in the Medieval and Early Modern Imaginations (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 2002), pp. 243-66.

Description
Similarities between magic and tale-telling and between the clerk of Orléans and the Franklin recur in FranT, despite the Franklin's attempts to distance them. As the clerk seeks to educate Aurelius, the Franklin tries to teach the Squire.

Alternative Title
Marvels, Monsters, and Miracles: Studies in the Medieval and Early Modern Imaginations.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale.
Squire and His Tale.