Biblical Wisdom: Chaucer's 'Shipman's Tale' and 'Mulier Fortis'

Author / Editor
Coletti, Theresa.

Title
Biblical Wisdom: Chaucer's 'Shipman's Tale' and 'Mulier Fortis'

Published
David Lyle Jeffrey, ed. Chaucer and Scriptural Tradition (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1984), pp. 171-82

Description
Parody of the 'mulier fortis" (Prov. 31:10-31) in ShT, compared to WBP.
Reprinted from University of Ottawa Quarterly 53 (1983): 433-44.

Alternative Title
Chaucer and Scriptural Tradition.

Chaucer Subjects
Shipman and His Tale.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.