The Unity of Fragment IV (Group E) : The 'Clerk's Tale' and the 'Merchant's Tale'

Author / Editor
Mandel, Jerome.

Title
The Unity of Fragment IV (Group E) : The 'Clerk's Tale' and the 'Merchant's Tale'

Published
Hebrew University Studies in Literature and the Arts 16 (1988): 27-50.

Description
Explores parallels of character and structure (councils, marriage agreement, feast, tests, restoration) used to establish the architectonic unity of the fragment. Clothing imagery in the tales strengthens these connections.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale.
Merchant and His Tale.