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A 5 page summary of Chaucer's "Shipman's Tale" as it appears in "Canterbury Tales." No additional sources cited.
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work "Canterbury Tales," presents us with many different characters from many different walks of life. His work discusses simple women, women of beauty, knights of nobility who possess the chivalric
code, men of religion, and simple men caught in unusual circumstances. One of the tales, "The Shipmans Tale," is a tale of a greedy, but beautiful woman, a monk, and
the womans husband who is a merchant. In the following paper we summarize Chaucers story. Shipmans Tale The first thing we note in this story is that the
wife of a particular merchant is beautiful and "And compaignable and revelous" (Chaucer 4). But, we also note that this is a "a thyng that causeth more dispence/ Than worth
is al the chiere and reverence That men hem doon at festes and at daunces" (Chaucer 5-7). Essentially, what this is telling us is that she was a woman of
beauty, but also one who needed attention and desired many things that only money could buy. This young wife, insists that her husband buy her many things, and also
throw grand parties. He is wealthy, for the most part, but she demands perhaps more than he can ultimately afford. She wants more, this is obvious. We see the complications
arise at a particular party: "This noble marchaunt heeld a worthy hous,/ For which he hadde alday so greet repair/ For his largesse, and for his wyf was fair,/ That
wonder is; but herkneth to my tale./ Amonges alle his gestes, grete and smale,/ Ther was a monk, a fair man and a boold -/ I trowe a thritty wynter
he was oold -/ That evere in oon was drawynge to that place,/ This yonge monk, that was so fair of face,/ Aqueynted was so with the goode man,/ Sith
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