January's Knife: Sexual Morality and Proverbial Wisdom in the 'Merchant's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Andrew, Malcolm.
January's Knife: Sexual Morality and Proverbial Wisdom in the 'Merchant's Tale'
- Published
- English Language Notes 16 (1978-79): 273-77.
- Description
- The point of the proverb that a man may not sin with his own wife or cut himself with his own knife is reversed in MerT. Chaucer intends the effect of surprise to create a sense of the nature and significance of January's wrong headedness.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.