Critical Readings

CR Episode 84: Canterbury Tales VI – The Clerk’s and Merchant’s Tales


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The panel discusses Fragment IV, containing two tales that deal with men who deliberately engage in unequal marriages to both good and ill results, and considers what these tales demonstrate about historical critiques of progress and the human condition.Continue reading
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