Chaucer's "Shipman's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Lawrence, William W.
Chaucer's "Shipman's Tale."
- Published
- Speculum 33.1 (1958): 56-68.
- Description
- Describes the fabliau features of ShT, comments on its likely (though unknown) source, observes that its "personal generalizations" are unusual in the genre, and assesses its treatment of women and its stylistic features as evidence that its original teller was the Wife of Bath rather than the Shipman. Explores Chaucer's possible process of revision and probable re-ordering of the tales, commenting on inconsistencies and contradictions that result or remain.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Shipman and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Canterbury Tales--General
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Style and Versification