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Fragment I / Group A
The General Prologue
The Knight's Tale
The Miller's Prologue &
Tale
The Reeve's Prologue & Tale
The Cook's Prologue & Tale
Fragment II / Group B1
The Man of Law's
Introduction, Prologue, Tale, & Epilogue
Fragment III /
Group D
The Wife of Bath's
Prologue & Tale
The Friar's Prologue & Tale
The Summoner's Prologue
& Tale
Fragment IV /
Group E
The
Clerk's Prologue & Tale
The Merchant's Prologue,
Tale, & Epilogue
Fragment V / Group F
The
Squire's Introduction & Tale
The Franklin's Prologue
& Tale
Fragment VI /
Group C
The Physician's Tale
The Pardoner's Introduction,
Prologue, & Tale
Fragment VII /
Group B2
The Shipman's Tale
The Prioress's Prologue
& Tale
The Prologue & Tale
of Sir Thopas
The Tale of Melibee
The Monk's Prologue & Tale
The Nun's Priest's Prologue,
Tale, & Epilogue
Fragment VIII /
Group G
The
Second Nun's Prologue & Tale
The Canon's Yeoman's
Prologue & Tale
Fragment IX /
Group H
The Manciple's
Prologue & Tale
Fragment X /
Group I
The Parson's Prologue
& Tale
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The
Merchant's Tale
1. In Middle English
The Merchant's
Prologue, Merchant's
Tale, and Merchant's
Epilogue at the UVa Electronic Text Center.
Read the
Merchant's Prologue and Tale in the context of Fragment
IV - Group E.
2. In Modern English Translation
Scott
Gettman's edition of the Canterbury
Tales (Electronic Literature Foundation) is accessible by individual tale &
available in a variety of formats: Middle English, Modern English, Facing Page,
& Interpolated - Glossed (frames; from unknown base text).
- Although unsuitable for formal research or college work, the
ELF is the best online version for younger readers and those unfamiliar with Middle
English. Easily navigable, and the Middle English glosses are very helpful.
The General Prologue and
the Marriage Group has been modernized by Michael Murphy (CUNY-Brooklyn), each tale
featuring a handsome introduction. Read the Merchant's
Prologue and Tale. Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.
The Litrix Reading Room translation
of the Canterbury Tales features rhyming couplets.
Sinan Kökbugur's helpfully glossed hypertext Middle English rendition of the complete Canterbury Tales is available at the Librarius page. Use the Table of
Contents in the left frame to click on a specific Tale, and difficult terms and phrases
are glossed in the lower frame.
Skip
Knox's selection
of Canterbury Tales in Modern English (Boise State) includes the Merchant's Tale
and the Epilogue
to the Merchant's Tale (from an unknown base text).
3. Historical & Cultural Backgrounds
Since
the Merchant's Tale includes the infamous "Pear Tree" episode, it might be
interesting to peruse James L. Matterer's Mythical Plants of the Middle Ages,
which includes a number of other fascinating trees and plants.
4. Sources, Analogues, & Related Texts
5. Online Notes & Commentary
Discussion and links concerning the Merchant's Prologue, Tale, and
Epilogue on Larry D. Benson's superlative Geoffrey Chaucer Page (Harvard). Includes
e-texts of scholarly essays, sources and ancillary texts, and capsule discussions of key
issues. Some of the items related to the Merchant's Tale include:
6. Online Articles & Books
A generous
new online publishing venture: The
University of California E-Scholarship Editions. "University of
California Press now offers electronic versions of almost all of its
journal titles and over 1400 books online, many of them out of print."
E-journals are available to subscriber institutions; 400 full texts, many
covering medieval topics, are available to the general public; the rest to
members of the UC community.
A selection of Chaucer-related and medieval
studies from University of California related to the Merchant's Tale include:
- Bloch, R.
Howard, and Frances Ferguson, eds. Misogyny,
Misandry, and Misanthropy. (Berkeley: U of California P, 1989.)
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Elaine Tuttle Hanson's Chaucer and
the Fictions of Gender (Berkeley: U of California P, 1992).
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Laura Kendrick's Chaucerian Play: Comedy and Control in the
Canterbury Tales (Berkeley: U of California P, 1988).
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H. Marshall Leicester's The Disenchanted Self: Representing the
Subject in the Canterbury Tales (Berkeley: U of California P,
1990).
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Richard Neuse's Chaucer's Dante:
Allegory and Epic Theater in The Canterbury Tales. (Berkeley: U
of California P, 1991).
Chaucer Sourcebook, from the
Harvard Chaucer Page, offers a number of classic and professional essays from noted
Chaucerians, including:
- George Lyman Kittredge, "Chaucer's
Discussion of Marriage," Modern Philology 9 (1911-1912): 435-67.
Perhaps one of the most important articles in all of Chaucer studies. Set the debate
concerning "the marriage group."
- David Aers, ""Chaucer: Love, Sex and
Marriage," from Chaucer, Langland, and the Creative Imagination, 1980 pp. 143-70.
Essays in Medieval Studies
features full-text articles from the proceedings of the Illinois Medieval Association,
online version edited by Allen J. Frantzen (Loyola - Chicago), including:
R.A.
Shoaf's online postprint Dante, Chaucer, and
the Currency of the Word devotes Chapter 12 to "The Merchant and
the Parody of Creation"
The
Myth of Eden, Bakhtinian Carnival, and Chaucer's Merchant's Tale
(Frederick Martin, Tulane U), from an ongoing e-project melding critical
and cultural theory & medieval studies. See Martin's e-dissertation in
progress, Pilgrimage
in the Age of Schism: Chaucer, Sociological Poetics, and the Canterbury
Tales.
Mari
Pakkala-Weckström (U of Helsinki) has written The
Discourse of Seduction and Intrigue: Linguistic Strategies in three
Fabliaux in the Canterbury Tales which examines "the different
linguistic strategies used by the participants: wives, husbands and lovers
with their varying roles" in tales of the Miller, Merchant, and
Shipman.
7. Student Projects & Essays
Anniina Jokkinen's Essays and Articles on Chaucer
includes a number of sample student essays, of varying quality. Like any other
source, student essays must be evaluated rigorously, cited correctly, and used
responsibly.
8. Online Bibliography
9. Syllabi & Course
Descriptions
10. Images & Multimedia
11. Language Helps & Audio Files
Sample
audio files (.wav, .au, .aiff) from the Merchant's
Tale, recorded at the 6th International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Simon
Fraser University, Vancouver, 1988, are available from the Chaucer Studio (Paul Thomas,
Brigham Young).
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