Chaucer's Shipman's Tale

Author / Editor
Yots, Michael.

Title
Chaucer's Shipman's Tale

Published
Explicator 36.4 (1978): 23-24.

Description
The proverb "to be as glad of something as 'fowel of day'," or variant, is used in KnT, CYT, TC, and ShT. The character associated with the fowl is deceived by appearances or by another character. In ShT Don John represents the fowler interpreted in medieval exegesis as Satan.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.
Shipman and His Tale.