The Originality of the 'Shipman's Tale'

Author / Editor
Scattergood, V. J.

Title
The Originality of the 'Shipman's Tale'

Published
Chaucer Review 11 (1977): 210-31.

Description
ShT contradicts the usual view of merchants in the fabliaux. By setting the merchant against the monk and the wife, Chaucer defies tradition and presents the merchant in a generally favorable light.
Reprinted in Reading the Past: Essays on Medieval and Renaissanec Literature (Four Courts, 1996), pp. 146-64.

Alternative Title
Reading the Past: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Shipman and His Tale.