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.
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