The 'Shipman's Tale': The Italian Analogues

Author / Editor
Guerin, Richard

Title
The 'Shipman's Tale': The Italian Analogues

Published
English Studies 52 (1971): 412-19.

Description
Reconsiders relations among ShT, Sercambi's "Novelle" no. 31, and Boccaccio's "Decameron" nos. 8.1 and 8.2, suggesting that it is "not unreasonable" to think that Chaucer "might have known all three of the analogues."

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