'Debt' and the Wife as a Verbal Exchanger in 'The Shipman's Tale'

Author / Editor
Hamaguchi, Keiko.

Title
'Debt' and the Wife as a Verbal Exchanger in 'The Shipman's Tale'

Published
Hiroe Futamura, Kenichi Akishino, and Hisato Ebi, eds. A Pilgrimage Through Medieval Literature (Tokyo: Nan' Un-Do Press, 1993), pp. 123-44.

Description
The verbal play on "debt" is elaborate and systematic in ShT, clarifying the social role and response of the wife.
Reprinted in Keiko Hamaguchi, Chaucer and Women (Tokyo: Eihosha, 2005).

Alternative Title
A Pilgrimage Through Medieval Literature.
Chusei Eibungaku-eno Junrei-ni Michi.
Chaucer and Women.

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