The Devil in the Garden: Pluto and Proserpine in Chaucer's 'Merchant's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Dalbey, Marcia A.
The Devil in the Garden: Pluto and Proserpine in Chaucer's 'Merchant's Tale'
- Published
- Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 75 (1974): 408-15.
- Description
- Examines the allegorization of Pluto and Proserpine in the "Ovide MoraliseĢ" and argues that it discloses how as figures of "earthly lust" their episode is well integrated into MerT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations