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Lambdin, Laura C.,and Robert T. Lambdin.   Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales" (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 271-80.
Consistent with contemporary social and economic conditions, the Miller of GP aspires to the gentry although he "is still rooted in the peasantry." Bridging the courtly KnT and the low-class RvT, Chaucer's MilT--like the Miller's…

Gosselink, Robert   English Quarterly 6.1 (1973): 1-8.
Summarizes RvT and explores the characterization and motives of Symkyn's wife, suggesting the possibility that she intentionally hit her husband with the staff.

Long, Charles.   Interpretations 6 (1974): 7-13.
By examining Chaucer's handling of his material and the verbal texture of MilT, we can determine the nature of the prior acquaintance of the Reeve and the Miller. The tale "is almost certainly based on a real episode...Robyn the Miller is Old John's…

Healey, M. K.   Glasgow: Foulis Archive Press, 1974.
Limited edition art-book version of MilT that uses the Nevill Coghill trans.

Eyler, Joshua R., and John P. Sexton.   ANQ 21.3 (2008): 2-6.
Nicholas's door in MilT (knocked off of its hinges in one moment and then closed on its hinges a few minutes later) is a semiotic hinge in the play between public and private space, echoing Theseus's attempts to control space in KnT.

Richmond, E. B., trans.   London: Hesperus, 2008.
Facing-page version of MilPT and the GP description of the Miller, with modernization in iambic pentameter facing the Middle English text from the Riverside edition. Contains a descriptive introduction, brief notes (pp. 53-55), and a biographical…

Bloomfield, Morton W.   Jerome Mandel and Bruce A. Rosenberg, eds. Medieval Literature and Folklore Studies: Essays in Honor of Francis Lee Utley (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1970), pp. 205-11.
Contends that MilT differs from both KnT and RvT in its presentation of a world that lacks rational order or poetic justice. Alison escapes punishment and John is punished unfairly so that behind the jollity and illusion of order in the MilT lies…

Davis, Norman, reader.   London: Tellways, [1970].
Item not seen.

Robinson, Peter, ed., with Barbara Bordalejo and Orietta Da Rold, and contributions by Lorna Stevenson, Elizabeth Solopova, and Daniel W. Mosser.   Leicester: Scholarly Digital Editions, 2004.
Includes interlinked images and transcriptions of all fifty-eight pre-1500 versions of MilPT, with complete collations (linked to variant maps), commentaries on family relationships of the versions, and stemmatic commentary on key readings.

Beidler, Peter G.   Chaucer Newsletter 11:2 (1989): 3, 8.
Analyzes "the state of Chaucer studies in China" by reviewing "Fang Zhong's translation into Chinese" of MilT. Beginning in the 1930s, Fang Zhong translated TC and most of CT in prose, modifying the Middle English version in two ways: changes to…

Martin, B. K.   G. A. Wilkes, and A. P. Riemer, eds. Studies in Chaucer. (Sydney: University of Sydney, 1981), pp. 86-120.
Analyzes plot and content to show that MilT is a popular tale, not a bookish one, and is based on twelve "joke motifs."

Biggs, Frederick M.   Review of English Studies 56 (2005): 497-523
Difficulties in dealing with the role of the three tubs (along with other issues) suggest that Chaucer's MilT is the source for the Flemish version. Chaucer may have originated this Tale to reflect on the theme of God's control, an idea also…

Biggs, Frederick M.   Journal of English and Germanic Philology 108 (2009): 59-80.
Biggs argues that Decameron 3.4 is a source for MilT, inspiring the latter's density of detail, its religious sentiment, and many of its narrative features, particularly the Flood story. MilP also echoes Boccaccio's "Conclusione dell'autore" and its…

Hieatt, Constance B., ed.   New York: Odyssey Press, [1970].
Edits MilT with notes and glossary, an introduction, a discussion of Chaucer's language, a brief bibliography, and a translation of the Flemish analogue to MilT, "The Three Guests of Heile of Bersele." The introduction considers the date of…

Piehler, Paul.   Hudson, Québec: Golden Clarion Literary Services, 1986.
Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler in Middle English of MilT, summarized as "A comical story about three men after one woman's attention, set in medieval England.

Adkins, Lieuen, trans.   San Francisco: Bellerophon, 1973.
Parallel-column version of MilPT in Middle English [Skeat edition] and modern rhymed couplets, accompanied by numerous b&w illustrations in comic-book style by Gilbert Shelton.

Cunningham, John E., ed.   Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1985.
Classroom text of MilT, with study-guide Introduction, notes, brief glossary and bibliography. The Introduction includes commentary on Chaucer's life, the "Framework and Origin" of CT, "how to read" Chaucer, the "Miller and his Language," and…

Thomas, Paul R., dir.   Provo, Utah : Chaucer Studio, 1996.
Recorded at radio station KRCW, Santa Monica College, during the Tenth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society. Re-edited and digitally mastered by Troy Sales and Paul R. Thomas in 2003.

Ross, Thomas W., ed.   Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1983.
The first CT "Variorum" to appear, Ross's edition, based on the Hengwrt, collates ten manuscripts and twenty printed editions with full critical apparatus to "present the MilT as Chaucer wrote it, as nearly as our present knowledge and resources…

Spearing, A. C., reader.   London: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, which also cites a CD release in 1998.

Swan, Richard.   Deddington, Oxfordshire: Philip Allan Updates, 2005.
Student guide to MilPT and the GP description of the Miller (text included for GP selection only), with general information about CT and reading Chaucer, and more specific discussion of plot, characters, themes, genre, and techniques of MilT.…

King, Pamela M.   Harlow: Longman; London: York Press, 2000.
Study guide to MilPT and the GP description of the Miller that includes a plot synopsis, running commentary, and glosses (text not included, except for three passages in Middle English, with closer analysis). Also includes descriptions of the…

Allen, Valerie, ed.   New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
A school-text Middle English edition of MilPT and the GP description of the Miller, with notes, a running narrative summary, and facing-page glosses. Accompanied by commentary on several topics (Chaucer's language, town versus gown in Oxford,…

Winny, James, ed.   Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971.
A textbook edition of MilPT in Middle English, with introduction and end-of-text notes and glossary. The Introduction (pp. 1-25) discusses the place of the Tale in the CT, its rhetoric and diction, sources and analogues, various themes,…

Boenig, Robert.   English Language Notes 21 (1983): 1-6.
The medieval bagpipe was featured in Nativity scenes, depictions of angels, and royal occasions. The Miller's bagpipe was a soft, pleasant, courtly, even celestial instrument--in subtly ironic contrast to his character.
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