The Franklin's Prologue and Tale from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Spearing, A. C., ed.
The Franklin's Prologue and Tale from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Published
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Rev. ed.
- Physical Description
- viii, 144 pp.
- Description
- Text of FranT and the GP description of the Franklin (based on Robinson's edition, 1957) with end-of-text notes and glosses. The Introduction (pp. 1-76) describes the sources and analogues of FranT; the Breton lai genre; the tale's major themes of marriage, "trouthe," and "gentillesse"; the tale's major characters; and its relationship to its teller. The first edition was published in 1966 (corrected in 1972), but the Introduction to the 1994 edition has been "completely rewritten," with "relatively small changes made elsewhere."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations