Chaucer's Coinage: Foreign Exchange and the Puns of the 'Shipman's Tale'

Author / Editor
Joseph, Gerhard.

Title
Chaucer's Coinage: Foreign Exchange and the Puns of the 'Shipman's Tale'

Published
Chaucer Review 17 (1983): 341-57.

Description
Chaucer's punning in ShT is complex, some puns depending upon the eye ("tale," "tallynge") and others upon the ear alone. The Shipman imports into English a foreign form (the fabliau) and foreign (especially French) financial words "that hadden pris."

Chaucer Subjects
Shipman and His Tale.