The Merchant's Tale critics

Question 1

E.Talbot Donaldson states that there is “ a state of nervousness from which only…

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…the most resolute unflappable reader can free himself.”

Question 2

Jay Schleusner observes that the apparent absence of Chaucer’s with makes the tale a

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“critical embarrassment”

Question 3

Martin Stevens says that it is “ a story

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intending to show the deceitfulness of women.”

Question 4

G.L Ketridge says that TMT has the “irony of passion

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and personal experience “ compared to Miller’s Tale which is ore philosophical.