A Spanish Analogue of the Pear-Tree Episode in the "Merchant's Tale."

Author / Editor
Wentersdorf, Karl P.

Title
A Spanish Analogue of the Pear-Tree Episode in the "Merchant's Tale."

Published
Modern Philology 64 (1967): 320-21.

Description
Identifies an analogue to the pear-tree episode in MerT, a folktale entitled "Women Always Get Away With It," first published in Puerto Rico in 1915-16 but evidently part of oral tradition.

Chaucer Subjects
Merchant and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations