The Mechanics of Comedy in Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Dane, Joseph A.
The Mechanics of Comedy in Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 14 (1980): 215-24.
- Description
- Chaucer achieves maximum concentration on the moment of denouement by organizing his characters into two parallel and static triadic sets. When the characters are in their triadic configurations, no action takes place. The resolution of tension by action takes place when the characters are in dyadic relationships.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.