Chaucer's Spring of Comedy: The 'Merchant's Tale' and other 'Games' with Augustinian Theology
- Author / Editor
- Rudat, Wolfgang E. H.
Chaucer's Spring of Comedy: The 'Merchant's Tale' and other 'Games' with Augustinian Theology
- Published
- Annuale Mediaevale 21 (1981): 111-20.
- Description
- The idea of sex as hard work and the portrait of January as lover draws on Augustinian theories of pre- and postlapsarian sexuality, also important in WBT and MkT; nevertheless, bawdy treatments of Christian theories are "harmoniously absorbed by the Spring of Comedy" that infuses CT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.