"The Shipman's Tale": Chaucer and Boccaccio.

Author / Editor
Copland, Murray.

Title
"The Shipman's Tale": Chaucer and Boccaccio.

Published
Medium Aevum 35.1 (1966): 11-28.

Description
Compares ShT with Boccaccio's "Decameron" 8.1 and 8.2 in order to "see the two writers more minutely for what they are," arguing for Chaucer's "clear, almost measurable superiority" in matters of atmosphere, vitality, characterization, and moral subtlety. Also comments at length on Chaucer's other fabliaux, particularly MilT, RvT, FrT, and SumT.

Chaucer Subjects
Shipman and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Miller and His Tale
Reeve and His Tale
Friar and His Tale
Summoner and His Tale