Lancelot Reborn: The Squire's Warning in The Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Bovaird-Abbo, Kristin.

Title
Lancelot Reborn: The Squire's Warning in The Canterbury Tales

Published
Enarratio 13 (2006): 104-32.

Description
Intertextual relationships among MerT, SqT, and FranT indicate differing attitudes toward perception, loyalty, and treason, particularly focused in the depictions of squires. Chaucer's Squire condescends to the lower classes and their ignorance of romance and Arthurian tradition, whereas the Franklin cautions his young social superior to seek a more chivalric outlook.

Chaucer Subjects
Squire and His Tale
Franklin and His Tale
Merchant and His Tale