Susannah and the "Merchant's Tale."

Author / Editor
Kellogg, Alfred L.

Title
Susannah and the "Merchant's Tale."

Published
Speculum 35 (1960): 275-79.

Description
Argues that Daniel 13.20 is a source of or influence on details of MerT 5.2138-48, and suggests that pictorial representations of Susannah and the Elders and details from the alliterative poem "Susannah" reveal ironic dimensions in Chaucer's scene of January and May in a closed garden.

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