Foiled by Fowl: The Squire's Peregrine Falcon and the Franklin's Dorigen
- Author / Editor
- Stock, Lorraine Kochanske.
Foiled by Fowl: The Squire's Peregrine Falcon and the Franklin's Dorigen
- Published
- Carolynn Van Dyke, ed. Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 85-100.
- Description
- Themes of "trouthe" and "gentillesse," as well as the threat of suicide, in the SqT falcon episode (5.409-631) anticipate major themes of FranT. Because SqT is prior in the narrative sequence, the human language of FranT parodies avian language rather than vice versa. The falcon episode is a "foil" for Dorigen's complaint (5.1355-1456).
- Alternative Title
- Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Squire and His Tale
- Franklin and His Tale