From Snickers to Laughter: Believable Comedy in Chaucer's Miller's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Beidler, Peter G.
From Snickers to Laughter: Believable Comedy in Chaucer's Miller's Tale
- Published
- Sandra M. Hordis and Paul Hardwick, eds. Medieval English Comedy (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2007), pp. 195-208.
- Description
- Beidler compares and contrasts MilT with its likely source, the Middle Dutch "Hiele van Beersele." Of the two, MilT provokes greater laughter because it is more plausible, a result of more carefully deployed details.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval English Comedy.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and LIterary Relations.