Chaucer and the Bible: The Case of the 'Merchant's Tale'

Author / Editor
Besserman, Lawrence [L.]

Title
Chaucer and the Bible: The Case of the 'Merchant's Tale'

Published
Hebrew University Studies in Literature and the Arts 6 (1978):10-31.

Description
The nearly thirty evocations of the Bible in MerT are comic and ironic. They flirt with blasphemy and so expose huamn folly.

Chaucer Subjects
Merchant and His Tale.