The Figure of Solomon in Chaucer's Merchant's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Wurtele, Douglas (J.)
The Figure of Solomon in Chaucer's Merchant's Tale
- Published
- Revue de l'Universite d'Ottawa 47 (1977): 478-87.
- Description
- Ironic references to Solomon, who is typologically identified with Christ, as well as to the "Song of Solomon," makes January something of an anti-Christ figure, just as May is a blasphemous counterpart of Mary, and January's garden a degraded "hortus conclusus."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.