Contrasting Masculinities in the 'Shipman's Tale' : Monk, Merchant, and Wife
- Author / Editor
- Beidler, Peter G.
Contrasting Masculinities in the 'Shipman's Tale' : Monk, Merchant, and Wife
- Published
- Peter G. Beidler, ed. Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde (Cambridge; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1998), pp. 131-42.
- Description
- Compares ShT with "Decameron" 8.1 to assess the negative and positive characteristics of masculinity portrayed in the monk and merchant of the Tale. The wife is given traits identified with men in the Middle Ages, perhaps because of the Tale's original assignment to the Wife of Bath.
- Alternative Title
- Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Shipman and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.