A Crux in Chaucer's "Franklin's Tale": Dorigen's Complaint.
- Author / Editor
- Baker, Donald C.
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