A Bared Bottom and a Basket: A New Analogue and a New Source for the Miller's Tale

Author / Editor
Biggs, Frederick M.

Title
A Bared Bottom and a Basket: A New Analogue and a New Source for the Miller's Tale

Published
Notes and Queries 254 (2009): 340-41.

Description
Among the four fabliaux in London, British Library Harley MS 2253, "La gageure," featuring the "misdirected kiss" motif, is an analogue of MilT, while "Le chevalier e la corbeille" is a possible source, providing not only a container that forces "the lovers' antagonist" into a punishing fall but also an architectural setting with the verticality necessary for such a descent.

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