Games and the Players of Games: Old French Fabliaux and the 'Shipman's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- McClintock, Michael W.
Games and the Players of Games: Old French Fabliaux and the 'Shipman's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 5.2 (1970): 112-36.
- Description
- Contrasts ShT with its fabliau analogues, arguing that Chaucer creatively adapts the genre by adding complicated characterization to the stark comic plot and by developing a serious thematic concern with the commercialization of sex and marriage, underscoring it through the depiction of betrayed friendship.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Shipman and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations