Fluctuating Proverbs in Three Eighteenth-Century Modernizations of Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale'

Author / Editor
Bowden, Betsy.

Title
Fluctuating Proverbs in Three Eighteenth-Century Modernizations of Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale'

Published
Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship 9 (1992): 10-29.

Description
Compares the treatment of proverbs in three eighteenth-century modernizations of MilT, assessing shifts in form, shifts in emphasis, and sensitivity to Chaucer's original. Considers how proverbs may "function as microcosms" of reader response and historical continuity.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale.
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