The Discourse of Marriage in the French Fabliaux and Chaucer's 'Shipman's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Sokolski, Patricia.
The Discourse of Marriage in the French Fabliaux and Chaucer's 'Shipman's Tale'
- Published
- DAI A74.09 (2014): n.p.
- Description
- Offers ShT as an example of how the use of fabliaux aids an understanding and exploration of marital dynamics, suggesting that the tale presents the merchant's marriage as a sort of economic contract between equals.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Shipman and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations