Ironic Dancing Absolon in the 'Miller's Tale'

Author / Editor
Jennings, Margaret, C.S.J.

Title
Ironic Dancing Absolon in the 'Miller's Tale'

Published
Florilegium 5 (1983): 178-88

Description
Absolon's twenty manners of dance after the school at Oxford may be traceable to the Morris dance troupes in the Oxford area, whose repertoire numbered approximately twenty dances. Absolon is ironically linked to dances which cast him in the role of Fool or of a man-woman character.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale.