Appropriateness of Character to Plot in the "Franklin's Tale."

Author / Editor
Severs, J. Burke

Title
Appropriateness of Character to Plot in the "Franklin's Tale."

Published
Mieczyslaw Brahmer, Stanislaw Helsztynski, and Julian Krzyzanowski, eds. Studies in Language and Literature in Honour of Margaret Schlauch (Warsaw: PWN—Polish Scientific Publishers, 1966), pp. 385-96.

Description
Comments on how "early elaboration" of characters in MilT and MerT "renders plausible later climactic action," and argues that the "marriage passage" of FranT (5.744-805) works in similar fashion, helping to justify the thoughts and actions of Dorigen and Arveragus later in the Tale. The characterizations of Aurelius and the Clerk also contribute to the "appropriateness of character to plot" in FranT.

Alternative Title
Studies in Language and Literature in Honour of Margaret Schlauch

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale
Miller and His Tale
Merchant and His Tale