Chaucer's Too-Well Franklin's Tale: A Problem of Characterization

Author / Editor
Milosh, Joseph.

Title
Chaucer's Too-Well Franklin's Tale: A Problem of Characterization

Published
Wisconsin Studies in Literature 5 (1970): 1-11.

Description
Contends that the characterizations of Arveragus, Dorigen, and Aurelius in FranT suffer from inconsistency or incompletion--touches of psychological realism unfulfilled--and suggests that these seemingly faulty characterizations can best be attributed to the demands of the Tale's genre.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale