The 'Cherry-Tree Carol' and the 'Merchant's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Rosenberg, Bruce A.
The 'Cherry-Tree Carol' and the 'Merchant's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 5.4 (1971): 264-76.
- Description
- Tallies similarities between the pear tree episode in MerT and the cherry tree account in an apocryphal narrative about the pregnancy of Mary, mother of Jesus. Explores parallels among various analogues, and explains how the parallels capitalize on details that occur earlier in the Merchant's narrative and heighten the audience's awareness of January's "spiritual blindness."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues and Literary Relations