Resurrection as Dramatic Icon in the Shipman's Tale

Author / Editor
Gibson, Gail McMurray.

Title
Resurrection as Dramatic Icon in the Shipman's Tale

Published
John P. Hermann and John J. Burke, eds. Signs and Symbols in Chaucer's Poetry (University: University of Alabama Press, 1981), pp. 102-12.

Description
In the Noah's Flood motif of MilT, the audience delightedly and ruefully recognizes the consequences of the perversion of God's order. In addition to visual or other sensory images (the runaway mare in RvT) Chaucer employs also dramatic icons, as in ShT, a "parodic enactment of Christ's Resurrection appearance to Mary Magdalen."

Alternative Title
Signs and Symbols in Chaucer's Poetry.

Chaucer Subjects
Shipman and His Tale.