A Crux in Chaucer's "Franklin's Tale": Dorigen's Complaint.

Author / Editor
Baker, Donald C.

Title
A Crux in Chaucer's "Franklin's Tale": Dorigen's Complaint.

Published
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 60 (1961): 59-64.

Description
Focuses on Chaucer's selection and arrangement of exempla drawn from Jerome's "Adversus Jovinianum" to argue that Dorigen's complaint (4.1367-456) is a "carefully shaped and molded passage of rhetoric designed to illuminate the character of Dorigen, the nature of her marriage, and the Franklin's idea of marriage; and to set the stage, in indecision, for the tale's two succeeding decisions which convey the 'moral'" of FranT.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Style and Versification