John Hawley: Merchant, Mayor and Privateer: Chaucer's Shipman of Dartmouth
- Author / Editor
- Connors, Michael.
John Hawley: Merchant, Mayor and Privateer: Chaucer's Shipman of Dartmouth
- Published
- Dartmouth: Richard Webb, 2008.
- Physical Description
- 168 pp. 5 maps; 50 b&w and color illus.
- Description
- A biography of John Hawley that concludes by arguing (pp. 147-55) that Hawley was at the center of a number of satirical allusions in Chaucer's GP description of the Shipman. Chaucer depicts a professional mariner, which Hawley was not, but the "social commentary" of the description capitalizes on late fourteenth-century London's familiarity with Hawley.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Shipman and His Tale