The Reenacted Fall in Chaucer's 'Shipman's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Stock, Lorraine Kochanske.
The Reenacted Fall in Chaucer's 'Shipman's Tale'
- Published
- Studies in Iconography 7-8 (1981-1982): 134-45.
- Description
- The garden encounter between Daun John and the merchant's wife is a parody on man's first sin in Eden. The three characters exhibit the sins of lechery, avarice, and vanity. The Monk parallels the tempter; the Wife, Eve; and the Merchant, Adam.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Shipman and His Tale.