The Quaint World of "The Shipman's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Levy, Bernard S.
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