'A Temple of False Goddis': Cupidity and Mercantile Values in Chaucer's Fruit-Tree Episode
- Author / Editor
- Gates, Barbara T.
'A Temple of False Goddis': Cupidity and Mercantile Values in Chaucer's Fruit-Tree Episode
- Published
- Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 77 (1976): 369-75.
- Description
- The references to the licentious god Pluto and the rich and lecherous Solomon that Proserpina talks of contribute to the notion of covetousness in MerT. The language of trade, commercial values, and the references to Solomon's prosperity in commerce make the tale the Merchant's.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.