An Historical Analogue to the 'Shipman's Tale'?
- Author / Editor
- Fries, Maureen.
An Historical Analogue to the 'Shipman's Tale'?
- Published
- Comitatus 3 (1972): 19-32.
- Description
- Suggests that details of ShT may reflect historical incidents involving Pedro I ("the Cruel") of Castile, his various marital scandals, and a Spanish-English naval battle near Bruges. Comments on Chaucer's connections with Spain.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Shipman and His Tale
- Chaucer's LIfe
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations