Chaucer and the 'Comedy of Lydia' 1

Author / Editor
Hira, Toshinori.

Title
Chaucer and the 'Comedy of Lydia' 1

Published
Bulletin of the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Nagasaki University, Humanities 23:2 (1983): 29-41.

Description
Compares MerT with "Comedy of Lydia" (an analogue) and suggests that Chaucer looks on the January-May follies with amusement whereas the laughter in "Comedy" is didactic.
In Japanese.

Chaucer Subjects
Merchant and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.