Thou and Tears: The Advice of Arveragus to Dorigen in Chaucer's Franklin's Tale

Author / Editor
Wilcockson, Colin.

Title
Thou and Tears: The Advice of Arveragus to Dorigen in Chaucer's Franklin's Tale

Published
Review of English Studies 54 : 308-12, 2003.

Description
The subtlety of Arveragus's use of the second-person singular pronoun (FranT 5.1479-86) invites readers' sympathy. Here and in ClT, Chaucer adapts his source by varying the register between the formal (plural) and familiar (singular) forms of the pronoun.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale.
Clerk and His Tale.
Language and Word Studies.