Domestic Opportunities: The Social Comedy of the Shipman's Tale

Author / Editor
Hume, Cathy.

Title
Domestic Opportunities: The Social Comedy of the Shipman's Tale

Published
Chaucer Review 41 (2006): 138-62.

Description
Read in the light of late medieval letter collections and conduct manuals for women, the comedy of ShT springs from a recognition of the merchant's wife's "clever manipulation of her roles: as hostess, social networker, housekeeper, business assistant, and status symbol."

Chaucer Subjects
Shipman and His Tale.