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

Released on 5 July 2021:
https://criticalreadings.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cr20210705.mp3

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.