The English Fabliau Tradition and Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Lewis, Robert E.
The English Fabliau Tradition and Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale'
- Published
- Modern Philology 79 (1982): 241-55.
- Description
- Although there were only a few English fabliaux before the late fourteenth century, an English fabliau genre can be identified as distinct from the earlier French in dramatic aspects, i.e., the use of direct speech. "Dame Sirith," for example, influenced Chaucer in diction and the use of parody.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.