The Merchant's Tale.
- Author / Editor
- Pittock, Malcolm.
The Merchant's Tale.
- Published
- Essays in Criticism 17 (1967): 26-40.
- Description
- Reads MerT as a "striking example" of the "tension between the tale and its teller" insofar as the Merchant fails to understand the "true significance" of the Tale. His "moral perception has been disturbed by anger and by a ludicrous self-identification with January," evident in several ironic disjunctions in his account.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale