Chaucer's French Accent: Gardens and Sex-Talk in the Shipman's Tale

Author / Editor
Beidler, Peter G.

Title
Chaucer's French Accent: Gardens and Sex-Talk in the Shipman's Tale

Published
Holly A. Crocker, ed. Comic Provocations: Exposing the Corpus of Old French Fabliaux. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pp. 149-61.

Description
When Chaucer used Boccaccio's "Decameron" 8.1 as his source for ShT, he was also influenced by French fabliaux, particularly a garden scene in the thirteenth-century "Aloul" and, more generally, the animal euphemisms typical of the genre in French tradition.

Contributor
Crocker, Holly A., ed.

Alternative Title
Comic Provocations: Exposing the Corpus of Old French Fabliaux.

Chaucer Subjects
Shipman and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.