"Fantasye and curious bisynesse": "The Merchant's Tale" and "The Shipman's Tale."

Author / Editor
Peksen, Azime.

Title
"Fantasye and curious bisynesse": "The Merchant's Tale" and "The Shipman's Tale."

Published
Mehmet Ali Celikel and Baysar Taniyan, eds. English Studies: New Perspectives (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2015), pp. 36-45.

Description
Analyzes how May in MerT and the wife in ShT "evade the oppressions" of marriage and "subvert their subjugation through negotiating and challenging the mercantile narration." Each female protagonist "generates her own meanings and pleasure."

Contributor
Celikel, Mehmet Ali, ed.
Taniyan, Baysar, ed.

Alternative Title
English Studies: New Perspectives

Chaucer Subjects
Merchant and His Tale
Shipman and His Tale