The Shipman's Knife

Author / Editor
Ellis, Mark Spencer.

Title
The Shipman's Knife

Published
Linda Cookson and Bryan Loughrey, ed. Critical Essays on The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales (Harlow: Longman, 1989), pp. 51-61.

Description
Explicates the Shipman's knife in GP, and explores how similar details unfold to characterize the Canterbury pilgrims. Details of "aggression and assertion" recur in the descriptions, as do commercial concerns.

Alternative Title
Critical Essays on The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales.

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Shipman and His Tale