'The Merchant's Tale': Januarie's 'Unlikely Elde'
- Author / Editor
- Brown, Emerson, Jr.
'The Merchant's Tale': Januarie's 'Unlikely Elde'
- Published
- Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 74 (1973): 92-106.
- Description
- Attends to the details and imagery of old age in MerT in order to clarify the "precision and complexity" of Chaucer's art, commenting on January's name, age (60 years), physical condition, sexual prowess, attitude toward counsel, etc., and exploring their negative moral implications.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
- Style and Versification