The Marriage Irony in the Tales of the Merchant and Franklin
- Author / Editor
- Schmidt, Gary D.
The Marriage Irony in the Tales of the Merchant and Franklin
- Published
- Anne C. Hargrove and Maurine Magliocco, eds. Portraits of Marriage in Literature (Macomb: Western Illinois University, 1984), pp. 97-105.
- Description
- Chaucer uses enfolding irony in MerT and FranT to examine the good marriage, with insights on courtly love and adultery through shifting perspectives and character conflict.
- Contributor
- Hargrove, Anne C.,
- Magliocco, Maurine,ed.
- ed.
- Alternative Title
- Portraits of Marriage in Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.
- Franklin and His Tale.