Just Say Yes, Chaucer Knew the Decameron : Or, Bringing the Shipman's Tale Out of Limbo

Author / Editor
Beidler, Peter G.

Title
Just Say Yes, Chaucer Knew the Decameron : Or, Bringing the Shipman's Tale Out of Limbo

Published
Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen, eds. The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question (Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000), pp. 25-46.

Description
Argues that Boccaccio's Decameron 8.1 was Chaucer's primary source for ShT, even though scholars have been reluctant to treat Decameron as a source for any of The Canterbury Tales. Posits definitions of source, hard analogue, and soft analogue.

Alternative Title
Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question.

Chaucer Subjects
Shipman and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.