Comedy for the Cognoscenti: Chaucer's 'Merchant's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Hussey, S. S.
Comedy for the Cognoscenti: Chaucer's 'Merchant's Tale'
- Published
- Elizabeth Maslen, ed. Comedy: Essays in Honour of Peter Dixon by Friends and Colleagues (London: Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, 1993), pp. 1-13.
- Description
- The comedy of MerT is brought out through Chaucer's manipulation of various literary sources and styles.
- For readers to appreciate fully the comedy of MerT, they must be familiar with Chaucer's works, as well as the literary context from which they derive.
- Contributor
- Maslen, Elizabeth,ed.
- Alternative Title
- Comedy: Essays in Honour of Peter Dixon by Friends and Colleagues.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.