The Pagan Setting of the 'Franklin's Tale' and the Sources of Dorigen's Cosmology

Author / Editor
Hume, Kathryn.

Title
The Pagan Setting of the 'Franklin's Tale' and the Sources of Dorigen's Cosmology

Published
Studia Neophilologica 44 (1972): 289-94.

Description
Argues that Dorigen's lament is "not necessarily Christian," derived as it is from Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" and "spiced with reminiscences" of Ovid's "Metamorphoses." Reads the lament as "completely consonant with what Chaucer regarded as pagan philosophy."

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations