The Blasphemy of Chaucer's Merchant

Author / Editor
Wurtele, Douglas. J.

Title
The Blasphemy of Chaucer's Merchant

Published
Annuale Mediaevale 21 (1981): 91-110.

Description
Proceeding by "oblique allusions and undertones," the treatment of the Virgin in MerT is "mordantly ironic," leading up to January's "brazen parody of the 'Canticum Canticorum'." This blasphemy is appropriate to the Merchant's bitter cynicism.

Chaucer Subjects
Merchant and His Tale.