'The Merchant's Tale' and Moral Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Edwards, A. S. G.
'The Merchant's Tale' and Moral Chaucer
- Published
- Modern Language Quarterly 51 (1990): 409-26.
- Description
- Surveys earlier responses to MerT and argues that the problems they identify cannot be solved; the "moral vacuum" of the tale leaves no criteria for moral evaluation. MerT is Chaucer's "bleakest" view of the relationship between poetry and morality.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.