Chaucer's "Merchant’s Tale."

Author / Editor
Griffith, Philip Mahone.

Title
Chaucer's "Merchant’s Tale."

Published
Explicator 16 (1957): item 13.

Description
Assesses Chaucer's use of the name "Damian" in MerT as an allusion to St. Damian who, with his brother St. Cosmos, was associated with medical healing. Attends to a pun on "leech" (healer) in the tale.

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