Hagiographic (Dis)play: Chaucer's 'The Miller's Tale'

Author / Editor
Wilson, Katharina (M.)

Title
Hagiographic (Dis)play: Chaucer's 'The Miller's Tale'

Published
Gerald Guinness and Andrew Hurley, eds. Auctor Ludens: Essays on Play in Literature (Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1986), pp. 37-45.

Description
Chaucer "organized his hagiographic play around the 'distinctiones', or normative arrays, giving and revenge, which are exemplified in the narrative clusters derivative of the hagiographics and the dramatic treatment of St. Nicholas and Absalom."

Contributor
Guinness, Gerald, ed.
Hurley, Andrew, ed.

Alternative Title
Auctor Ludens: Essays on Play in Literature.
"Hagiographic Display: Chaucer's 'The Miller's Tale'."

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale.