The Merchant's Tale

one of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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The Merchant's Tale

Summary

The Merchant's Tale is a chapter[1]. It draws 96 Wikipedia views per month (chapter category, ranking #8 of 41).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Merchant's Tale authored Geoffrey Chaucer[3].
  • The Merchant's Tale's image is recorded as The Merchant - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg[4].
  • The Merchant's Tale's instance of is recorded as chapter[5].
  • The Merchant's Tale's follows is recorded as The Clerk's Tale[6].
  • The Merchant's Tale's followed by is recorded as The Squire's Tale[7].
  • The Merchant's Tale's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 185125943[8].
  • The Merchant's Tale's GND ID is recorded as 4517564-0[9].
  • The Merchant's Tale's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n86121842[10].
  • The Merchant's Tale's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 170464909[11].
  • The Merchant's Tale's part of is recorded as The Canterbury Tales[12].
  • The Merchant's Tale's Commons category is recorded as The Merchant's Tale[13].
  • The Merchant's Tale's language of work or name is recorded as Middle English[14].
  • The Merchant's Tale's Libraries Australia ID is recorded as 36560705[15].
  • The Merchant's Tale's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0246tg[16].
  • The Merchant's Tale's has edition or translation is recorded as The Marchantes Tale[17].
  • The Merchant's Tale's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/The-Merchants-Tale[18].
  • The Merchant's Tale's narrative motif is recorded as adulteress persuades husband to milk cow with his eyes blindfolded: meets lover[19].
  • The Merchant's Tale's form of creative work is recorded as poem[20].
  • The Merchant's Tale's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987010254523005171[21].
  • The Merchant's Tale's Digital Index of Middle English Verse ID is recorded as 6535[22].

Body

Geography

The Merchant's Tale's part of is recorded as The Canterbury Tales[12].

Designation and Status

The Merchant's Tale's instance of is recorded as chapter[5].

Why It Matters

The Merchant's Tale draws 96 Wikipedia views per month (chapter category, ranking #8 of 41).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. Retrieved . sites.ualberta.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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