"Artes that been curious": Questions of Magic and Morality in Chaucer's "The Franklin's Tale."

Author / Editor
Coats, Kaitlin.

Title
"Artes that been curious": Questions of Magic and Morality in Chaucer's "The Franklin's Tale."

Published
Sigma Tau Delta Review 11 (2014): 90-99.

Description
Considers the ambivalent role of magic in FranT, arguing that vacillation "between belief and skepticism, truth and illusion, nature and sorcery" help Chaucer to create "a divide between perception and reality" and undermine the "purported moral system" of the Tale.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale