'A Professional Thyng' : The Wife as Merchant's Apprentice in the 'Shipman's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Woods, William F.
'A Professional Thyng' : The Wife as Merchant's Apprentice in the 'Shipman's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 24 (1989): 139-49.
- Description
- The social background of ShT offers a rationale for the actions of the characters, especially of the wife. Her struggle to achieve parity in her mercantile marriage transforms her into a reflection of her husband. The monk, who is a "competing interest," aids this transformation.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Shipman and His Tale.