Chaucer's Merchant: No Debts?
- Author / Editor
- Stillwell, Gardiner.
Chaucer's Merchant: No Debts?
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 57 (1958): 192-96.
- Description
- Examines the syntax, rhetoric, and emphases of GP 1.280 in comparison with similar locutions elsewhere in Chaucer (especially ShT) to argue that it means, emphatically, " If he [the Merchant] was in debt, the spectator would certainly never know it!"
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
Shipman and His Tale
Style and Versification
Language and Word Studies