Sex and Money in Chaucer's Shipman's Tale.

Author / Editor
Silverman, Albert H.

Title
Sex and Money in Chaucer's Shipman's Tale.

Published
Philological Quarterly 32 (1953): 329-36.

Description
Compares SumT with analogous tales of the "Lover's Gift Regained," arguing that the comparison reveals the "sardonicism" of Chaucer's account. Suggests that this tone culminates in the sexual punning on "tallying" and "tailing" in 3.416 and 433-34 which equate sex and money. Comments on links with WBPT and MerT in detail and tone.

Chaucer Subjects
Shipman and His Tale
Style and Versification
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Merchant and His Tale