An Optical Theme in 'The Merchant's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Brown, Peter.
An Optical Theme in 'The Merchant's Tale'
- Published
- Paul Strohm and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1, 1984 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985), pp. 231-43.
- Description
- Three medieval optical authorities possibly known by Chaucer--Alhazen, Witelo, and Bartholomew--provide parallels for the visual deceptions at the end of MerT, which reflect the medieval tradition of "perspectiva."
- Alternative Title
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1 (1984)
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.