Money, Sexuality, Wordplay, and Context in the 'Shipman's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Hahn, Thomas.
Money, Sexuality, Wordplay, and Context in the 'Shipman's Tale'
- Published
- Julian N. Wasserman and Robert J. Blanch, eds. Chaucer in the Eighties (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1986), pp. 235-49.
- Description
- Textual evidence and historical information suggest that the Merchant of ShT is a money changer involved in usury. Usury was a sin equivalent to adultery. Love of money was more than simple "cupiditas"; because of his usury, the Merchant's wife owes him no allegiance.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer in the Eighties.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Shipman and His Tale.