The Monk and the 'Merchant's Tale': An Aspect of Chaucer's Building Process in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Garbáty, Thomas Jay.
The Monk and the 'Merchant's Tale': An Aspect of Chaucer's Building Process in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Modern Philology 67 (1969): 18-24.
- Description
- Argues that the Monk was the original teller of the MerT, a response directed against the ShT as told originally by the Wife of Bath. Discusses puns and implications in the GP description of the Monk to characterize the Monk is an "amorous man," a male "counterpart" to the Prioress (a satiric female type), an appropriate teller of MerT, and an important part of Chaucer's ongoing revision of CT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale
- Merchant and His Tale
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Shipman and His Tale
- Prioress and Her Tale
- Style and Versification
- Canterbury Tales--General