Sex and Punishment in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Miller's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Cornelius, Michael G.
Sex and Punishment in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Miller's Tale'
- Published
- Blake Hobby, ed. Human Sexuality (New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2009), pp. 95-104.
- Series
- Bloom's Literary Themes.
- Description
- Introduces MilT as a fabliau, contrasts it with KnT, and comments on the "punishment" received by each of the major characters, including Alisoun, who is victimized by being a wife and through whom Chaucer critiques marriage.
- Contributor
- Hobby, Blake, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Human Sexulaity.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale
- Knight and His Tale