'The name of soveraynetee': The Private and Public Faces of Marriage in The Franklin's Tale

Author / Editor
Hume, Cathy.

Title
'The name of soveraynetee': The Private and Public Faces of Marriage in The Franklin's Tale

Published
Studies in Philology 105 (2008): 284-303.

Description
Chaucer, having established an egalitarian marriage ideal at the beginning of FranT, explores how such an ideal would be tested by real-world circumstances.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale