No Joke : Transcendent Laughter in the Teseida and the Miller's Tale

Author / Editor
Arner, Timothy D.

Title
No Joke : Transcendent Laughter in the Teseida and the Miller's Tale

Published
Studies in Philology 102.2 (2005): 143-58

Description
Examines Chaucer's use of Boccaccio's Teseida as a source for KnT. Also argues that by having the Miller parody the story of Palamon and Arcite, Chaucer transforms his own work, as well as Boccaccio's text, into a fabliau.

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