The Art of Chaucer's Franklin.
- Author / Editor
- Burlin, Robert B.
The Art of Chaucer's Franklin.
- Published
- Neophilologus 51 (1967): 55-73.
- Description
- Describes the Franklin's grasping "imitation of noble ways" in FranPT and in his GP description. The genre and rhetoric of the Tale are outdated, absurd, and/or obtrusive, while its depictions of ideals of marriage, gentility, and patience are either excessive or hollow, indicating that there is "something foolish and misdirected" in the tale-teller and his Tale. Considers adaptations of material from St. Jerome and echoes from the tales of the Wife of Bath, Clerk, and Knight.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Clerk and His Tale
Knight and His Tale