Richard Hole and the 'Merchant's' and 'Squire's Tales': an Unrecognized Eighteenth-Century (1797) Contribution to Source and Analogue Study
- Author / Editor
- DiMarco, Vincent.
Richard Hole and the 'Merchant's' and 'Squire's Tales': an Unrecognized Eighteenth-Century (1797) Contribution to Source and Analogue Study
- Published
- Chaucer Review 16 (1981): 171-80.
- Description
- Hole's "Remarks on the Arabians Nights' Entertainments" contains speculations about the sources of the pear-tree motif and the magical objects in the two tales. While many of his guesses are without substantiation, he does suggest a pear-tree analogue to be found in the "Bahar-i Danish" of Inayat Allah Kanbu (1608-71). A likely source for the healing-sword motif is Pliny's "Natural History."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
- Squire and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.