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CR Episode 85: Canterbury Tales VII – The Squire’s and Franklin’s Tales

CR Episode 85: Canterbury Tales VII – The Squire’s and Franklin’s Tales

Critical Readings · Critical Readings

July 5, 20211h 16m

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Show Notes

The panel discusses Fragment V, with attention given both to scholarly theories about whether Chaucer deliberately left the Squire's tale interrupted and unfinished, and to Chaucer's use of estates satire in his depiction of the Franklin and his tale.