The Literary Relations of Chaucer's Shipman's Tale

Author / Editor
Nicholson, Peter Charles.

Title
The Literary Relations of Chaucer's Shipman's Tale

Published
DAI 34.08 (1974): 3114A.

Description
Argues that the source of ShT is Boccaccio's "Decameron," and that their several differences were "made necessary by Chaucer's alteration of the ending." Chaucer gave his tale the "superficial appearance of a French fabliau" in order to critique the genre.

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