Thou and Tears: The Advice of Arveragus to Dorigen in Chaucer's Franklin's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Wilcockson, Colin.
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.