Magic and Honor in "The Franklin's Tale."

Author / Editor
Hatton, Thomas J.

Title
Magic and Honor in "The Franklin's Tale."

Published
Papers on Language and Literature 3 (1967): 179-81.

Description
Contends that parallels between the "sacrifices" in FranT and two analogous ones found in Jean Froissart's "Chroniques" 2.137-38 encourage us to see the offer of the Franklin's magician to be illusory and worthless while Arveragus's offer of the "honor of his wife" is "very generous."

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