Sentimental Comedy in the "Franklin's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- David, Alfrd.
Sentimental Comedy in the "Franklin's Tale."
- Published
- Annuale Mediaevale 06 (1965)
- Description
- Argues that the Franklin's gentility is a "watered-down version" of traditional gentility, aligning FranT with eighteenth-century bourgeois "sentimental comedy." Contrasts KnT and FranT, maintaining that "virtue releases man from the bonds of necessity" in the latter.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale
Knight and His Tale