Marriage and the Question of Allegory in the 'Merchant's Tale'

Author / Editor
Neuse, Richard.

Title
Marriage and the Question of Allegory in the 'Merchant's Tale'

Published
Chaucer Review 24 (1989): 115-31.

Description
The lack of a defined perspective from which to judge exposes a profound ambivalence in the Merchant, an ambivalence that manifests itself in a series of confusing and disconcerting shifts in narrative viewpoint, suggesting a narrator who is quite uncertain about where he stands.

Chaucer Subjects
Merchant and His Tale.