A Credible Debt: Dekker as Host to Chaucer's Franklin.

Description: Shows that in his pamphlet "A Strange Horse-Race," Thomas Dekker quotes FranT “to illustrate hospitality” and the force of “binding oaths”; in his play "The Shoemaker’'s Holiday," he "drew on Chaucer's Franklin for material about credit and debt." Because Chaucer was reputed to be a debtor, and concerned with patience, obligation, and binding language, Dekker relied on Chaucer as "a model . . . not just as writer, but also as a debtor."