Wifely Eye for the Manly Guy: Trading the Masculine Image in the Shipman's Tale

Author / Editor
Crocker, Holly A.

Title
Wifely Eye for the Manly Guy: Trading the Masculine Image in the Shipman's Tale

Published
T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 59-73.

Description
The wife in ShT refuses to submit to the "comprehensive masculine dominance" of the competitive world of her husband and the monk. The two men understand their manliness in terms of the "image of potency"; like commerce, manliness is based on appearance only.
A revised version of this essay is in Crocker's Chaucer's Visions of Masculinity (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

Alternative Title
Seyd in Forme and Reverence: Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr.

Chaucer Subjects
Shipman and His Tale.