Biblical Women in "The Merchant's Tale" and "The Tale of Melibee."

Author / Editor
Turner, W, Arthur.

Title
Biblical Women in "The Merchant's Tale" and "The Tale of Melibee."

Published
English Language Notes 3.2 (1965): 92-95.

Description
Observes similarities in the parallel lists of Biblical women in MerT 4.1362-74 and Mel 7.1098-1101, and argues that their presence is "ironical" in the former but not the latter: "by the time" Chaucer wrote MerT he saw "both sides to the characters of Rebecca, Judith, Esther, and Abigail."

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