Of Mice and Women: Thoughts on Chaucerian Allusion
- Author / Editor
- Brown, Emerson,Jr.
Of Mice and Women: Thoughts on Chaucerian Allusion
- Published
- Leigh A. Arrathoon, ed. Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction (Rochester, Mich.: Solaris Press, 1986), pp. 63-84.
- Description
- The Merchant's comparison of May to "Queene Ester" (MerT 1744) indicates the terror, treachery, and hatred that lie beneath a demure exterior; the Prioress's response to trapped mice (PrT 144-45), which figure Christ ensnaring the devil, reveals a misdirected sentimentality.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.
- Prioress and Her Tale.