The Shipman's Tale: VII, 204
- Author / Editor
- Mandel, Jerome.
The Shipman's Tale: VII, 204
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 70 (1991): 99-102.
- Description
- Removing attribution of the phrase "al stille and softe" from the monk and reading the phrase instead as narrative discourse eliminates ambiguity, enhances our perception of the monk's character, and extends the tale's thematic concerns.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Shipman and His Tale.