Absolon's "freend so deere": A Pivotal Point in the Miller's Tale.
- Author / Editor
- Novelli, Cornelius.
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