The Merchant's Tale Revision Guide

A comprehensive revision guide on Geoffrey Chaucer’s ‘The Merchant’s Tale’ with extensive information on plot, characters, themes, context, language, intention and critical reception over time as well as essay titles and sample essay. This guide is ideal for A level students to supplement their coverage of the text and to demystify what is often considered a difficult or challenging text, encouraging confidence in approaching the text and being able to write about the important aspects of language and style as well as the themes, contexts and critics’ opinions. It contains quotations from the text and from critics, handily organised by character, theme and contextual issues.