'Goddes Pryvetee' and Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Hanks, D. Thomas (Jr.)
'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.