Solving Dorigen's Trilemma: Oath and Law in the Franklin's and Physician's Tales
- Author / Editor
- Bugbee, John.
Solving Dorigen's Trilemma: Oath and Law in the Franklin's and Physician's Tales
- Published
- Medievalia et Humanistica 36 (2010) 49-76.
- Description
- Dorigen in FranT has more than the two options of shame or death: she can also choose to break a bad law, even though the decision to let bad law stand "seems somehow, tragically, to have been taken long before the characters became conscious of choosing." In PhyT as well as in FranT, characters respond to their situations in ways that legitimize bad law.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale
- Physician and His Tale