The Originality of the 'Shipman's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Scattergood, V. J.
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.