The Effect of the Merchant's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Donaldson, E. Talbot.
The Effect of the Merchant's Tale
- Published
- Speaking of Chaucer (New York: Norton, 1970), pp. 30-45.
- Description
- Reads MerT as an "intensely bitter story," dilating upon the "central juxtaposition of the seemingly, or potentially, beautiful with the unmistakably ugly," examining the nuances of several words, discussing the "vacuity" of the marriage encomium, and assessing the derogation of "things-as-they-are" and several biblical passages in the Tale.
- Alternative Title
- Speaking of Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
- Language and Word Studies
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations