Chaucer and a Proper Name: January in 'The Merchant's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Brown, Emerson,Jr.
Chaucer and a Proper Name: January in 'The Merchant's Tale'
- Published
- Names 31 (1983): 79-87.
- Description
- Analyzes the function of the proper names as playful, complex allusions, and associates with January--holder of the silver "clyket" to the garden--both Janus, god of passageways, and Saint Peter, who holds the keys to paradise.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.