The Uses of Enchantment in The Franklin’s Tale

The Uses of Enchantment in The Franklin’s Tale

Chaucer drew on several sources (essentially Boccaccio’s Decameron) and resorted to the Breton lays as a genre he imitated in The Franklin’s Tale. Courtly love, magic and supernatural situations make up the expected framework of the tale claiming to be an apparently well-rounded lay. Yet the role pl...

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Main Author: Martine Yvernault
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut du Monde Anglophone 2014-04-01
Series:Etudes Epistémè
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/216
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