Source and Theme in the 'Shipman's Tale'

Author / Editor
Millichap, Joseph R.

Title
Source and Theme in the 'Shipman's Tale'

Published
University of Dayton Review 10.3 (1974): 3-6.

Description
Contrasts ShT with analogous tales (Boccaccio's "Decameron" 8.1; Sercambi's "Novelle" 19) to demonstrate how the "pervasive irony" of the tale reveals moral censure of the characters and their actions.

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