Reading the Middle English Breton Lays and Chaucer's Franklin's Tale

INTRODUCTION

Roman

CONTEXTS

Middle English Literature

STUDIES

Geoffrey Chaucer :The Franklin's talein context

Modern lays, folk tales, and fairy tales

Leo Carruthers est professeur de Littérature, de langue anglaise médiévale et d'Histoire au département Anglais de l'université de Paris Sorbonne IV.

"The Breton lays are relatively short narratives, usually concentrrating on a small group of people, such as a husband and wife, or a pair of star-crossed young lovers, sometimes extended to their parents and families ; the characters and events are fictitious, the plot often surprising and unexpected."