The Discourse of Marriage in the French Fabliaux and Chaucer's 'Shipman's Tale'

Author / Editor
Sokolski, Patricia.

Title
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