When Proserpina comes on the stage, Cupid wounds her with his dart, Pluto at once declares his love, and as he expected finds it requited. Ceres, Exemplicus and the chorus then come in, all ready ...

* Pluto was the god of the dead in Roman mythology. One of the most important myths involving Pluto was his abduction of his wife, Proserpina, and the reaction of her mother, Ceres, the goddess of ...

An examination of medieval allegorizations of Pluto and Proserpine suggests how fully Chaucer integrates the Pluto-Proserpine episode into the moral structure of the Merchants Tale. The two gods, seen ...