Physiognomy and Characterization in the 'Miller's Tale'

Author / Editor
Hanson, Thomas B.

Title
Physiognomy and Characterization in the 'Miller's Tale'

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 72 (1971): 477-82.

Description
Interprets details of physiognomy in the characterizations of Alison and Absolon in MilT; hers indicate her "availability"; his, his timidity and foppishness.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale
Style and Versification