The Marriage Group: Precarious Equilibrium.
- Author / Editor
- Hodge, James L.
The Marriage Group: Precarious Equilibrium.
- Published
- English Studies 46 (1965): 289-300.
- Description
- Challenges the putative "simple and even balance" of the Marriage Group in CT, discussing several factors that highlight Chaucer's "purposeful inconclusiveness" in the dramatic interplay among the Tales: 1) MerT and FranT are each an "attack" on the merchant in ShT; 2) the Squire responds pointedly to the "cutting sarcasm" in MerT; and 3) FranT undercuts its own ideals, as does the Host's response to this Tale.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
Squire and His Tale
Franklin and His Tale
Shipman and His Tale