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Merchant's Tale

Merchant's Tale is a narrative poem within Geoffrey Chaucer’s *The Canterbury Tales* that exemplifies the genre of the fabliau through its ironic portrayal of marital deception and courtly ideals, distinguished by its critique of bourgeois values and the use of classical allusion within a distinctly vernacular Middle English literary framework.

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Publications

1.8K

Citations

53

Authors

11

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

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Variants

The Merchant's Tale

Parents

Publications

47

Sources and analogues of the Canterbury tales

Choice Reviews Online · 2002 · 183 citations

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Civic Education, Community Norms, and Political Indoctrination

Edgar Litt · American Sociological Review · 1963 · 163 citations

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Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World

Mark Allen, Donald Howard · South Central Review · 1988 · 104 citations

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Masculinities in Chaucer : approaches to maleness in the Canterbury tales and Troilus and Criseyde

Peter G. Beidler · 1998 · 100 citations

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Biblical Allusion and Allegory in "The Merchant of Venice"

Barbara Kiefer Lewalski · Shakespeare Quarterly · 1962 · 98 citations

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Authors

53

  1. AH
    Alison Hanham

    2 publications · 26 citations

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  2. WM
    W. Moelwyn Merchant

    Illinois State University, United States

    1 publications · 26 citations

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  3. AL
    Anne Laskaya

    1 publications · 37 citations

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  4. RH
    R. H. Parker

    University of Exeter, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 45 citations

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  5. JM
    John Marney

    1 publications · 45 citations

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Institutions

11

  1. State University of New York

    Albany, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    21 citations

  2. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    18 citations

  3. John Brown University

    Siloam Springs, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    98 citations

  4. University of California System

    Oakland, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    18 citations

  5. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    63 citations

  6. Flinders University

    Adelaide, Australia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    45 citations

  7. University of Exeter

    Exeter, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    45 citations

  8. Bryn Mawr College

    Bryn Mawr, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    26 citations

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Venues

  1. Shakespeare Quarterly

    5 publications · 174 citations

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  2. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 6 publications · 350 citations

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  3. The American Historical Review

    AHR · 3 publications · 148 citations

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  4. Studies in the age of Chaucer

    2 publications · 30 citations

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  5. The Modern Language Review

    2 publications · 63 citations

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