Chaucer's 'Shipman's Tale' Within the Context of the French Fabliaux Tradition
- Author / Editor
- Fichte, Joerg O.
Chaucer's 'Shipman's Tale' Within the Context of the French Fabliaux Tradition
- Published
- Joerg O. Fichte, ed. Chaucer's Frame Tales (Cambridge, D. S. Brewer, 1987), pp. 51-66.
- Description
- Stresses that genre markers influence audience reception. Surveys the "mass of single works called "fabliaux proprement dits" to determine "invariant elements," which are genre markers in four categories: "communicative situation, province of meaning, authorial intent, and audience reception." Compares ShT with the hypothetical model.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's Frame Tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Shipman and His Tale.