The Franklin

Author / Editor
Coss, Peter.

Title
The Franklin

Published
Stephen H. Rigby, ed., with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis. Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 227-46.

Description
Examines current scholarship to illuminate the portrait of the Franklin in GP, arguing that it reflects Chaucer's various opinions about "the social position of franklins in real life" and "the roles Chaucer has its Franklin perform" in FranT.

Alternative Title
Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales."

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale