Who Could Tell the Joy that Is between a Husband and His Wife? Feeling with the Good Wife in the "Franklin's Tale."

Author / Editor
Burger, Glenn D.

Title
Who Could Tell the Joy that Is between a Husband and His Wife? Feeling with the Good Wife in the "Franklin's Tale."

Published
Chaucer Review 55, no. 4 (2020): 422-40.

Description
Traces the struggles of Dorigen in FranT as a kind of conduct literature for wives, as Dorigen's pain in Arveragus's absence is linked to "two contemporary French conduct texts--'Le Livre du chevalier de la Tour Landry' (1371) and 'Le Mesnagier de Paris' (1394)."

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