The "Shipman's Tale": Deciphering, Coding, and Confusion.
- Author / Editor
- Culver, Jennifer.
The "Shipman's Tale": Deciphering, Coding, and Confusion.
- Published
- In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017.
- Physical Description
- [7 pp.]
- Description
- Encourages readers to keep track of the money in ShT, assessing the coded actions of gifting, receiving, and reciprocating in the Tale, analyzing the merchant's response to Don John's request for 100 franks (7.281-96), and suggesting that the readers come up with their own assessments of the merchant and whether he deserved the trick played upon him. Includes several classroom projects and questions for discussion.
- Alternative Title
- The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Shipman and His Tale