Luke 12 and Chaucer's 'Shipman's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Winnick, R. H.
Luke 12 and Chaucer's 'Shipman's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 30 (1995): 164-90.
- Description
- A likely source of inspiration for ShT is the scriptural text from Luke, where interrelated sins parallel those of Chaucer's characters and where images and phrases are analogous to Chaucer's.
- The biblical text (not a lost French fabliau) as source provides the moral commentary on retributive justice believed missing from ShT, thus supplying outside the text what the "Tale" itself is essentially about.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Shipman and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.