The Social Character of May Games: A Popular Background for Chaucer's 'Merchant's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Schwartz, Robert B.
The Social Character of May Games: A Popular Background for Chaucer's 'Merchant's Tale'
- Published
- Zeitschrift fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik 27 (1979): 43-51.
- Description
- Damyan is seen as a type of fourteenth-century Robin Hood, who presided over May revels and mated with the May queen, and who was prosecuted under vagrancy laws which Chaucer may have enforced.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.