Chaucer's Merchant's Tale Reviewed

Author / Editor
Eadie, John.

Title
Chaucer's Merchant's Tale Reviewed

Published
Poetica (Tokyo) 21-22 (1985): 25-47

Description
In light of the mythological tradition of Janus and connections between January and Adam, January's self-deception in MerT is less bitter than funny. In general, the Tale "is one of the great literary celebrations of marriage, albeit a comic one."

Chaucer Subjects
Merchant and His Tale.