An Aesopic Allusion in the 'Merchant's Tale'

Author / Editor
Von Kreisler, Nicholai.

Title
An Aesopic Allusion in the 'Merchant's Tale'

Published
Chaucer Review 6.1 (1971): 30-37.

Description
Traces the allusion to a "panyer ful of herbes" in MerT (4.1568) to an oral version of the apocryphal "Life of Aesop," commenting on the implications of this source for the tale.

Chaucer Subjects
Merchant and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations