Chaucer's "Shipman's Tale" in Modern Dress.

Author / Editor
Stroud, Theodore A.

Title
Chaucer's "Shipman's Tale" in Modern Dress.

Published
College English 17 (1955): 109-10.

Description
Identifies modern analogues to ShT and Boccaccio's "Decameron" 8.1 in Thomas Menkel's 1946 short story, "Secret Debt," and Menkel's reported source in a "Scotch joke," surmising general transmission of the tale.

Chaucer Subjects
Shipman and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations