'Taillynge Ynough': The Function of Money in the 'Shipman's Tale'

Author / Editor
Schneider, Paul Stephen.

Title
'Taillynge Ynough': The Function of Money in the 'Shipman's Tale'

Published
Chaucer Review 11 (1977): 201-09.

Description
In ShT money corrupts marriage and brotherhood, but it effects a relationship between the merchant and his wife. Hence money is both good and evil, but its effects are unpredictable.

Chaucer Subjects
Shipman and His Tale.