Chaucer's Miller's Tale and Reeve's Tale, Boccaccio's Decameron, and the French Fabliaux

Author / Editor
Heffernan, Carol Falvo.

Title
Chaucer's Miller's Tale and Reeve's Tale, Boccaccio's Decameron, and the French Fabliaux

Published
Italica 81: 311-24, 2004

Description
Several motifs and verbal echoes among MilT, RvT, and "The Decameron" strengthen the case for "memorial borrowing" and invite the invention of a new critical term for Chaucer's poems: "metrical novellas."

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale.
reeve and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.