Love in Hell: The Role of Pluto and Proserpine in Chaucer's 'Merchant's Tale'

Author / Editor
Simmons-O'Neill, Elizabeth.

Title
Love in Hell: The Role of Pluto and Proserpine in Chaucer's 'Merchant's Tale'

Published
Modern Language Quarterly 51 (1990): 389-407

Description
Unlike its analogues, MerT develops themes and images associated with the myth of Proserpine's rape and Ceres's search for her daughter. As a result, both May and January are presented as culpable and victimized.

Chaucer Subjects
Merchant and His Tale.