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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Chaucer, Geoffrey

Chaucer, Geoffrey
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Franklin's Tale

Introduction:

The Franklin's Tale makes an excellent illustration of the difficulty of
classifying Chaucer's tales. Every commentator feels obliged to explain that
it is really not a breton lai despite the fact that the Franklin seems to
identify it as such in his prologue. (The exact definition of these lais is a
fairly involved matter in any case, and it seems best to note merely that the
setting of the Franklin's story in Brittany and its concern with the
supernatural show the influence, somewhere along the line, of the breton ...

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