Chaucer and Shakespeare: The Merchant's Tale Connection
Chaucer and Shakespeare: The Merchant's Tale Connection
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University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press
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English
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Brown discusses Shakespeare's use of the Merchant's Tale. In the Merchants Tale, as in the Wife of Baths Tale, Chaucer uses faery to articulate the consequences of obstinate sexual fantasy and desire; of refusing to accept the imperatives of aging; of transgressing boundaries of sexual restraint and social status; and of the exercise of female powe...
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Chaucer and Shakespeare: The Merchant's Tale Connection
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1444665433
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0009-2002
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1528-4204
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10.5325/chaucerrev.48.2.0222
