Chaucer's Shipman's Tale, Boccaccio, and the 'Civilizing' of Fabliau

Author / Editor
Finlayson, John.

Title
Chaucer's Shipman's Tale, Boccaccio, and the 'Civilizing' of Fabliau

Published
Chaucer Review 36 : 336-51, 2002.

Description
When seen in light of probable sources in Decameron 8.1-2 and contrasted with Chaucer's other fabliaux, ShT is an "elegantly sophisticated comedy of bourgeois values [written] by a socially and intellectually elevated vintner's son."

Chaucer Subjects
Shipman and His Tale.