Absolon's "freend so deere": A Pivotal Point in the Miller's Tale.

Author / Editor
Novelli, Cornelius.

Title
Absolon's "freend so deere": A Pivotal Point in the Miller's Tale.

Published
Neophilologus 52 (1968): 65-69.

Description
Explains how the scene that involves Gerveys the smith (1.3772-89) is "structurally crucial" to MilT by creating an effective lull between "two bits of explosive comedy," helping to characterize Absolon, and gathering the threads of several important motifs of the Tale.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale