A Twentieth-Century Analogue to Chaucer's 'Merchant's Tale'

Author / Editor
Hoy, James F.

Title
A Twentieth-Century Analogue to Chaucer's 'Merchant's Tale'

Published
Chaucer Review 14 (1979): 155-57.

Description
A previously uncollected analogue emerges in the form of a joke in Kansas. Structural parallels include the motivating action, the consummation in a tree, and the refusal of the husband to believe the evidence of his own eyes.

Chaucer Subjects
Merchant and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.