Chaucer and the 'Franklin's Tale'

Author / Editor
Donovan, Mortimer J.

Title
Chaucer and the 'Franklin's Tale'

Published
Mortimer J. Donovan. The Breton Lay: A Guide to Varieties (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1969), pp. 173-83.

Description
Describes the features of FranT that affiliate it with the genre of the Breton lay (Breton lai) and those that make Chaucer's work unique. Considers the sources of FranT, and explore its aesthetic success as an "imitation" of the genre, including comments on its themes and rhetoric.

Alternative Title
The Breton Lay: A Guide to Varieties (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1969), pp. 173-83.

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