The Morality of 'The Merchant's Tale'

Author / Editor
Burnley, J. D.

Title
The Morality of 'The Merchant's Tale'

Published
Yearbook of English Studies 6 (1976): 16-25.

Description
The wording of MerT has many echoes, some heretofore unidentified, of medieval marriage services. Suggestions of the Christian ideal are thus juxtaposed to the characters' perverse misunderstandings of marriage throughout the tale, providing an explicit standard for moral judgment.

Chaucer Subjects
Merchant and His Tale.