The Merchant's Prologue and Tale from the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
- Author / Editor
- Hussey, Maurice, ed.
The Merchant's Prologue and Tale from the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
- Published
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966.
- Physical Description
- vi, 109 pp.; 1 b&w illus.
- Description
- Presents MerPT in Middle English (following Robinson's 1957 edition), with notes and glossary at the end of the text. The Introduction (pp. 1-34) comments on the GP description of the Merchant, the relations between MerT and ClT and between MerT and FranT, courtly love, garden imagery, source material, the character of January, and Chaucer's "handling" of English idioms, proverbs, ironies, and other stylistic features, concluding that the Tale is "one of Chaucer's masterpieces."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Style and Versification
Clerk and His Tale
Franklin and His Tale