Double Meanings: I. 'Double Entendre' in 'The Miller's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Neuss, Paula.
Double Meanings: I. 'Double Entendre' in 'The Miller's Tale'
- Published
- Essays in Criticism 24 (1974): 325-40.
- Description
- Comments in critics' "pun-hunting" in Chaucer's works and describes two kinds of bawdy puns in MilT (those that carry connotations of subtlety and secrecy and those that connote pleasure and entertainment), tracing their complex interrelations and admiring Chaucer's skill and wit.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale
- Style and Versification