C. S. Lewis's Problem with "The Franklin's Tale": An Essay Written in the Seventieth Anniversary Year of "The Allegory of Love."

Author / Editor
Christopher, Joe R.

Title
C. S. Lewis's Problem with "The Franklin's Tale": An Essay Written in the Seventieth Anniversary Year of "The Allegory of Love."

Published
Salwa Khoddam, Mark R. Hall, and Jason Fisher, eds. C. S. Lewis and the Inklings: Reflections on Faith, Imagination, and Modern Technology (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2015), pp. 121-32.

Description
Explores why C. S. Lewis chose not to discuss FranT in his "Allegory of Love," arguing that Lewis made the decision because he wanted to attribute the "final defeat of courtly love by the romantic conception of marriage" to Edmund Spenser in his "Faerie Queene." However, FranT was a "transmutation" of courtly love into marriage 200 years before Spenser wrote.

Contributor
Khoddam, Salwa, ed.
Hall, Mark R., ed.
Fisher, Jason, ed.

Alternative Title
C. S. Lewis and the Inklings: Reflections on Faith, Imagination, and Modern Technology

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale