Metaphoric Comedy in the 'Shipman's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Woods, William F.
Metaphoric Comedy in the 'Shipman's Tale'
- Published
- Jean E. Jost, ed. Chaucer's Humor: Critical Essays (New York and London: Garland, 1994), pp. 207-28.
- Description
- The conversion of all to "mercantile exchange" underlies a comic displacement of roles in ShT. The merchant and the monk switch roles, and the wife paradoxically gains a sense of self-worth, a comic transformation of her economic and sexual dependency.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's Humor: Critical Essays.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Shipman and His Tale.