Chaucer's Friar and Merchant
- Author / Editor
- Havely, Nicholas R.
Chaucer's Friar and Merchant
- Published
- Chaucer Review 13 (1979): 337-45.
- Description
- The Friar's varied activities are recounted in terms that have both commercial and non-materialistic applications. Ambigous diction points toward deeper questions about the use of wealth and, together with the sexual innuendoes and the enumeration of activities commonly shared by mendicants and merchants in antifraternal writing, establishes the Friar as a harbinger of the Merchant.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Friar and His Tale.
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.