"Who Hath No Wyf, He Is No Cokewold": A Study of John and January in Chaucer's Miller's and Merchant's Tales.
- Author / Editor
- Boothman, Janet.
"Who Hath No Wyf, He Is No Cokewold": A Study of John and January in Chaucer's Miller's and Merchant's Tales.
- Published
- Thoth 4 (1963): 3-14.
- Description
- Compares and contrasts John of MilT with January of MerT as "ridiculous figures" and "gulls of courtly love," the first "senex amans" naïve, the second lascivious. Both men violate "an existing societal order" and the ideals of "sexual propriety and moderation."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale
Merchant and His Tale