" Franklin's Tale," F 1139-1151

Abstract:

Agreement upon the principal sources of the Franklins Tale has re mained fairly stable for several decades: Jerome, Against Jovinian; Boccaccio, Filocolo; and, perhaps, a non-extant Breton lay. Jerome accounts for the list of women who preferred death to dishonor; Boc caccio for the general plot and the question at the end of the Tale; and the hypothetical lay obligingly takes upon itself whatever burdens of composition one thinks too heavy for Chaucer's wit. It would be worse than useless to subjoin to an already weighty bibliography still another note professing to cast new light on this tale; however, an in teresting and perhaps not insignificant chain of relationships emerges from the juxtaposition of F 1139-51 (and its parallel, F 1189-1204) and the Old French Floire et Blancheflor, First Version 805-891 (ed. Kr? g er), the so-called (by Du M? ril)" version aristocratique." First of all, an examination of Chaucer's lines …

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1966

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