Chaucer, the Merchant, and Their Tale: Getting Beyond Old Controversies: Part I
- Author / Editor
- Brown, Emerson, Jr.
Chaucer, the Merchant, and Their Tale: Getting Beyond Old Controversies: Part I
- Published
- Chaucer Review 13 (1978): 141-56.
- Description
- MerT is not just a merry fabliau, uncomplicated by a fictional narrator. Through evidence included in the prologue, most of the first hundred and fifty lines, and various other passages in the work, we see that Chaucer may have consciously tried to avoid this misunderstanding about the narrative voice and tone of the tale.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.