Chaucer's Imaginable Audience and the Oaths of The Shipman's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Keen, William P.
Chaucer's Imaginable Audience and the Oaths of The Shipman's Tale
- Published
- Topic 50 (2000): 91-103.
- Description
- Assesses the six oaths by saints--Martyn, Denys, Peter, Yves, Austyn, and Jame--in ShT, arguing that familiarity with details of the saints' lives provokes the audience to condemn the characters in the Tale.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Shipman and His Tale.