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| - | + | -Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī''' ({{lang|fa|مولانا جلال الدین محمد بلخى}}), also known as '''Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī''' ('''جلالالدین محمد رومی'''), but known to the English-speaking world simply as '''Rumi''', (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century [[Persian people|Persian]] [[poet]], Islamic [[jurist]], [[theologian]], and [[mystic]]. | |
| - | '''The Merchant's Tale''' is one of [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]'s ''[[The Canterbury Tales|Canterbury Tales]]''. In it Chaucer subtly mocks antifeminist literature like that of [[Theophrastus]] ('Theofraste'). The tale also shows the influence of [[Giovanni Boccaccio|Boccaccio]] (''[[The Decameron|Decameron]]'': 7th day, 9th tale. See [[Summary_of_Decameron_tales#Ninth_tale_.28I.2C_9.29|Summary of Decameron tales]]. The Merchant's Tale is the story of a [[cuckold]]ed an older husband and his young wife who by [[quick-witted]] lying get away with it. Though several of the tales are [[sexually explicit]] by modern standards, this one is especially so. One question that splits critics is whether the Merchant's tale is a [[fabliau]]. Typically a description for a tale of carnal lust and frivolous bed-hopping, some would argue that especially the latter half of the tale, where Damian and May make love in the tree with the blind Januarie at the foot of the tree, represents [[fabliau]]. | + | |
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| - | Similar tales are Boccaccio's Story of [[Lydia]] and [[Pyrrhus]] and [[The Simpleton Husband]] from ''[[One Thousand and One Nights]].'' Book IV of the The ''[[Masnavi]]'' of [[Rumi]] contains another pear tree story. | + | |
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-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī (Template:Lang), also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (جلالالدین محمد رومی), but known to the English-speaking world simply as Rumi, (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic jurist, theologian, and mystic.
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