Group F of The Canterbury Tales

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Group F of The Canterbury Tales is one of the narrative groupings in Geoffrey Chaucer’s medieval story collection, containing a set of tales linked by shared pilgrims and transitional material.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf narrative group
section of The Canterbury Tales
hasAlternativeLabel Fragment F (in some editorial traditions) NERFINISHED
Fragment V NERFINISHED
hasAuthor Geoffrey Chaucer NERFINISHED
hasCanonicalStatus standard group in many modern editions of The Canterbury Tales
hasComponentGenre Breton lay (The Franklin’s Tale) GENERATED
romance (The Squire’s Tale) GENERATED
hasCulturalContext English medieval literature
Middle English literature
hasEditorialFunction groups tales by shared pilgrims and links
hasFrameCharacter The Host NERFINISHED
hasGenre frame narrative
verse narrative
hasKeyManuscript Ellesmere Manuscript NERFINISHED
Hengwrt Manuscript NERFINISHED
hasLanguage Middle English
hasMeter iambic pentameter (predominantly)
hasModernEditor F. N. Robinson (as part of his edition of The Canterbury Tales) NERFINISHED
Larry D. Benson (Riverside Chaucer, as part of his ordering of fragments) NERFINISHED
hasNotableFeature contains an unfinished tale (The Squire’s Tale)
includes interruption of a tale by another pilgrim
shows interaction between Squire and Franklin
hasOrderInCollection varies by manuscript tradition
hasOriginalMedium manuscript
hasPilgrim The Franklin NERFINISHED
The Squire NERFINISHED
hasSettingWithinFrame pilgrimage to Canterbury
hasTheme courtly love
marriage and fidelity
nobility and gentility
storytelling on pilgrimage
hasTimeOfComposition late 14th century
hasTraditionalOrderLabel Group F
hasTransitionalMaterial interruption of The Squire’s Tale
link between The Squire’s Tale and The Franklin’s Tale
narrative links involving the Host
hasVerseForm rhymed couplets
hasWork The Franklin’s Tale NERFINISHED
The Squire’s Tale NERFINISHED
isStudiedIn Chaucer scholarship
medieval English literature courses
partOf The Canterbury Tales NERFINISHED

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The Franklin's Tale collectionOrder Group F of The Canterbury Tales