Parodying Typology and the Mystery Plays in the Miller's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Prior, Sandra Pierson.
Parodying Typology and the Mystery Plays in the Miller's Tale
- Published
- Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 16 (1986): 57-73.
- Description
- Not mere humorous touches, Chaucer's complex parodies of the mystery plays of Noah and Herod cover "biblical figures and events, the contemporary religious drama,...and exegesis, which lay behind the widespread use of typology." MilT explodes in "contradictory allusions: Fall and Flood, Satan and Herod, God and Lucifer, Noah and Joseph, Uxor and Mary"-- a "conflation of typological references."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.