Chaucer's Franklin and His Tale
- Author / Editor
- Robertson, D. W., Jr.
Chaucer's Franklin and His Tale
- Published
- Costerus 1 (1974): 1-26.
- Description
- Characterizes the Franklin in light of his social status, administrative and judicial offices, his "Epicurean concern for externals," and his association with the Sergeant at Law. Then reads FranT as an ironic indictment of the narrator's foolish attitudes toward gentility, love, and marriage, focusing on tale's adaptations of the Amis section of the "Roman de la Rose" and Boethius's "Consolation," and its relations with other tales of the marriage group.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale
- Man of Law and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and LIterary Relations