The Franklin's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Hodgson, Phyllis, ed.
The Franklin's Tale
- Published
- [London]: University of London. Athlone Press, 1960 and 1973.
- Physical Description
- 160 pp; illus.
- Description
- Textbook edition of FranPT and the GP description of the Franklin, with text in Middle English, notes and glossary, and discussion of the Franklin's character, possible sources of FranT, and Chaucer's "inventiveness." Includes several appendixes: Chaucer and his works; Chaucer's language; his versification, and the "scientific allusions" in FranT ("Astronomy, Astrology, and Magic").
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
- Franklin and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations