The Franklin's Tale: Chaucer or the Critics
- Author / Editor
- White, Gertrude M.
The Franklin's Tale: Chaucer or the Critics
- Published
- PMLA 89.3 (1974): 454-62.
- Description
- Contrasts the "opposing principles of conduct" that underlie the main characters in FranT and MerT, arguing that the "values" expressed there are "dramatized and explored" throughout CT. Moreover, the view of "gentilesse" expressed in FranT sums up the courtly ideals of honor, truth, courtesy, and freedom, which are corroborated in several of Chaucer's lyrics: Truth, Gent, and Sted,
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale
- Merchant and His Tale
- Truth
- Gentilesse
- Lak of Stedfastnesse