The 'Mulier Fortis' and Chaucer's Shipman's Tale

Author / Editor
Coletti, Theresa.

Title
The 'Mulier Fortis' and Chaucer's Shipman's Tale

Published
Chaucer Review 15 (1981): 236-49.

Description
In ShT, Chaucer may have used the well-known text of Proverbs 31.10-31, which praises the valiant woman, in ironic fashion. The scriptural "mulier fortis" is praised for her "huswifery," her provision of food and clothing, her "rendering" to her husband--qualities ironically inverted by the wife of St. Denis.

Chaucer Subjects
Shipman and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.