The Quaint World of "The Shipman's Tale."

Author / Editor
Levy, Bernard S.

Title
The Quaint World of "The Shipman's Tale."

Published
Studies in Short Fiction 4.2 (1967): 112-18.

Description
Describes the "ironic reversal" of the roles of the husband and the monk in ShT, exploring the equation of sex and commerce in the Tale, and the wife's use of them both. The Tale presents commercialization of sex and a sexualization of commerce.

Chaucer Subjects
Shipman and His Tale