Rough Music in Chaucer's 'Merchant's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Jonassen, Frederick B.
Rough Music in Chaucer's 'Merchant's Tale'
- Published
- Jean E. Jost, ed. Chaucer's Humor: Critical Essays (New York and London: Garland, 1994), pp. 229-58.
- Description
- Briefly surveys the carnivalesque folk tradition of charivari in medieval literature and assesses MerT in light of it, especially the description of the marriage between January and May, the musical imagery, and the inexpressibility topos.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's Humor: Critical Essays.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.