"Artes that been curious": Questions of Magic and Morality in Chaucer's "The Franklin's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Coats, Kaitlin.
"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