The Play of the 'Miller's Tale': A Game within a Game
- Author / Editor
- Rowland, Beryl B.
The Play of the 'Miller's Tale': A Game within a Game
- Published
- Chaucer Review 5.2 (1970): 140-46.
- Description
- Reads Chaucer's reference to "game" in MilT 1.3186 as a reference to mystery drama and discusses allusions to cycle plays in the details and correspondences of the Tale, including aspects of the Fall, the Flood, the Annunciation, the Slaughter of the Innocents, and the St. Joseph legend.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations