Chaucer's Joly Absolon
- Author / Editor
- Silar, Theodore I.
Chaucer's Joly Absolon
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 69 (1990): 409-17.
- Description
- The epithet "joly" or "jolif," used seven times to characterize Absolon in MilT, is inadequately translated as "jolly." Chaucer makes use of many Middle English meanings of the word to portray Absolon as "happy and light-hearted, amorous, a convivial drinker, finely dressed, self-confident, proud, and pretty--although perhaps somewhat overweight."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.