Women's 'Pryvetees' and Fabliau Politics in the 'Miller's Tale'

Author / Editor
Lochrie, Karma.

Title
Women's 'Pryvetees' and Fabliau Politics in the 'Miller's Tale'

Published
Exemplaria 6 (1994): 287-304.

Description
MilT constructs cuckoldry as a transaction between men that governs our reading of both the tale and the interactions between Miller and Reeve. The homosocial exchange of female sexuality is a secret concealed in cuckoldry but revealed in the masculine economy of storytelling.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale.
Reeve and His Tale.