The Climax in the 'Merchant's Tale'

Author / Editor
Beidler, Peter G.

Title
The Climax in the 'Merchant's Tale'

Published
Chaucer Review 6.1 (1971): 38-43.

Description
Argues that we do not know whether or not Damian completed the act of copulation in the pear tree of MerT, impregnating May, despite Emerson Brown's claims that he did neither. More important are the facts that January has been cuckolded and that he thinks May pregnant.

Chaucer Subjects
Merchant and His Tale