Deluding Words in the 'Merchant's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Burger, Douglas A.
Deluding Words in the 'Merchant's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 12 (1977): 103-10.
- Description
- May's final answer is the culmination of "an incongruence between words and truth that is manifest throughout the entire poem." The preamble of antifeminist material is glossed by an old man's fantasy. The Merchant's "inability" to gloss allows him to reveal May's fornication "unmodified by the illusion words create."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.