Dramatic Intertextuality in the 'Miller's Tale': Chaucer's Use of Characters from Medieval Drama as Foils for John, Alisoun, Nicholas and Absolon

Author / Editor
Beidler, Peter G.,Jennifer McNamara Bailey, Christine G. Berg, Sister Elaine Marie Glanz, Anne M. Dickson, Tracey A. Cummings, and Elizabeth M. Biebel.

Title
Dramatic Intertextuality in the 'Miller's Tale': Chaucer's Use of Characters from Medieval Drama as Foils for John, Alisoun, Nicholas and Absolon

Published
Chaucer Yearbook 3 (1996): 1-20.

Description
Six brief essays from a graduate seminar explore how select medieval plays of the Flood, Nativity, Annunication and Slaughter of the Innocents and Jean Bodel's "Le jeu de Saint Nicholas" illuminate Chaucer's characters in MilT.

Contributor
McNamara Bailey, Jennifer.
Berg, Christine G.
Glanz, Sister Elaine Marie.
Dickson, Anne M.
Cummings, Tracey A.
Biebel, Elizabeth M.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale.