"Canterbury Tales," F 1541-44.

Author / Editor
Magoun, F. P., Jr.

Title
"Canterbury Tales," F 1541-44.

Published
Modern Language Notes 70 (1955): 173.

Description
Suggests that a portion of Dorigen's speech in FranT (5.1541-44) has wrongly been ascribed to her by various editors, indicating why it should better be assigned to the Franklin as narrator. Also suggests that the reference to a "clerk" (Fran 5.1611) by the "philosophre" is a correct reading, despite counter-suggestions by Manly and Rickert.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale
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