'Goddes Pryvetee' and Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale'

Author / Editor
Hanks, D. Thomas (Jr.)

Title
'Goddes Pryvetee' and Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale'

Published
Christianity & Literature 33 (1984): 7-12.

Description
The pun on "pryvetee," meaning in ME "private affairs" and "private parts," mocks the orderly piety of KnT and becomes part of a series of sacred-profane juxtapositions which heighten the bawdiness and comic effect of MilT.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale.