The Legendary Don Juan: A Possible Source for Chaucer's 'The Shipman's Tale'

Author / Editor
Reiff, Raychel Haugrud.

Title
The Legendary Don Juan: A Possible Source for Chaucer's 'The Shipman's Tale'

Published
Journal of the Short Story in English/Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle 39.2 : 11-21, 2002.

Description
Suggests that Daun John and aspects of ShT may have been inspired by a popular legend (perhaps oral) of Don Juan.

Chaucer Subjects
Shipman and His Tale.