'The Merchant's Tale': Some Lay Observations
- Author / Editor
- Shores, David L.
'The Merchant's Tale': Some Lay Observations
- Published
- Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 71 (1970): 119-33.
- Description
- Argues that the primary concern of MerT is January's foolish lechery, that the tone of the Tale is not mordant, and that its various parts cohere as a harmonious whole. Challenges the idea that the Tale is essentially a contribution to the Marriage Group of CT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale