Knight and Miller: Similarity and Difference

Author / Editor
Brewer, Derek.

Title
Knight and Miller: Similarity and Difference

Published
Wendy Harding, ed. Drama, Narrative and Poetry in The Canterbury Tales (Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2003), pp. 127-38.

Description
Although written for the same fourteenth-century courtly audience/readership, KnT and MilT are two very different types of narrative. One of the features of Chaucer's Gothic aesthetic was to shift between high and low styles. These two Tales represent extreme limits of his verse, and there are variations of style and attitude even within the Tales.

Alternative Title
Drama, Narrative and Poetry in The Canterbury Tales.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.
Miller and His Tale.
Style and Versification.