Reading the Middle English Breton Lays and Chaucer's "Franklin's Tale"
- Author / Editor
- Carruthers, Leo.
Reading the Middle English Breton Lays and Chaucer's "Franklin's Tale"
- Published
- Paris: Atlande, 2013.
- Physical Description
- 190 pp.
- Series
- Collection Clefs Concours.
- Description
- Discusses the genre of "lay" as a subset of romance, and places individual lays in their historical and literary contexts, reexamining the meaning of "Breton" in relation to medieval Celtic literature more generally. Compares Chaucer's lays to earlier ones in Middle English, and observes connections with modern folk and fairy tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale