'Hortus Inconclusus': The Significance of Priapus and Pyramus and Thisbe in the 'Merchant's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Brown, Emerson Jr.
'Hortus Inconclusus': The Significance of Priapus and Pyramus and Thisbe in the 'Merchant's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 4.1 (1969): 31-40.
- Description
- Explores the sources of Chaucer's allusions to Priapus and to Pyramus and Thisbe in MerT (4.2034-37 and 4.2125-31) and argues that the allusions deepen the bitter cynicism of the Tale by suggesting sexual fruitlessness and frustration in the pear tree episode.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Style and Versification