The Franklin's Tale: A Palimpsest Reading

Author / Editor
Colmer, Dorothy.

Title
The Franklin's Tale: A Palimpsest Reading

Published
Essays in Criticism 20 (1970): 375-80.

Description
Argues that the Franklin as narrator presents the characters in FranT as both "living people and as standard types from courtly romance," not worrying excessively about consistency of characterization and revealing more wisdom than we expect from him.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale