Domestic Opportunities: The Social Comedy of the Shipman's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Hume, Cathy.
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.