Why Chaucer Calls the 'Franklin's Tale' a Breton Lai
- Author / Editor
- Hume, Kathryn.
Why Chaucer Calls the 'Franklin's Tale' a Breton Lai
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 51 (1972): 365-79.
- Description
- Surveys the characteristics of the genre of the Breton lai in French and English, and argues that Chaucer labeled FranT as such in order to "minimize the religious implications of certain elements in the story" and encourage response to its courtly concern with "gentilesse".
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations