Chaucer's Franklin and His Tale

Author / Editor
Robertson, D. W., Jr.

Title
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