The 'Shipman's Tale': The Italian Analogues
- Author / Editor
- Guerin, Richard
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