Another French Source for "The Merchant's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Grennen, Joseph E.
Another French Source for "The Merchant's Tale."
- Published
- Romance Notes 8 (1966): 109-12.
- Description
- Argues that aspects of the beginning of MerT (including January's ill health, the names Placebo and Justinus, etc.) may have been inspired by details and sentiments found in "Livre du Chevalier de la Tour-Landry."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations