No Joke : Transcendent Laughter in the Teseida and the Miller's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Arner, Timothy D.
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.