"Which was the mooste fre": Chaucer's Realistic Humour and Insight into Human Nature, as Shown in "The Frankeleyns Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Veldhoen, N. H. G. E.
"Which was the mooste fre": Chaucer's Realistic Humour and Insight into Human Nature, as Shown in "The Frankeleyns Tale."
- Published
- J. Lachlan Mackenzie and Richard Todd, eds. In Other Words: Transcultural Studies in Philology, Translation and Lexicology Presented to Hans Meier on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday (Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter Mouton, 2019), pp. 107-16.
- Description
- Seeks to answer the "demande d’amour" of FranT (1622), first eliminating Dorigen and the magician from consideration of who is most "fre," and then arguing that Aurelius and Arveragus have effectively equal claim to be named--a complicated balance "not untypical" of Chaucer. Compares Chaucer's version with analogues in "Sanskrit Vetula-stories" and Boccaccio's "Filocolo."
- Contributor
- Mackenzie, J. Lachlan, ed.
Todd, Richard, ed.
- Alternative Title
- In Other Words: Transcultural Studies in Philology, Translation and Lexicology Presented to Hans Meier on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations