Hagiographic (Dis)play: Chaucer's 'The Miller's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Wilson, Katharina (M.)
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.