Merchants Tale Critics

Across

• 1. Cyncical condemnation of courtly convention (5, 1, 6)
• 4. Chaucers garden is no longer a palce of courtly love or intellectual debate but of lust and sexuality (5, 6)
• 5. a tale of clarity, critical, observation and disgust (4, 6)
• 6. religon itself is bemocked (3, 7)
• 7. an irony so quiet, so delicate that many readers never notice is is there at all (5, 6)
• 8. mutual love between spouses is notably absent (7)
• 9. We are left with a disturbing notion that a level of happiness is possible through folly and self deception (6, 1, 10)
• 10. January shops for his bride (9, 1, 8)