The "Canticum Canticorum" in the "Miller's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Kaske, R. E.
The "Canticum Canticorum" in the "Miller's Tale."
- Published
- Studies in Philology 59 (1962): 225-40.
- Description
- Explores in MilT the comic and thematic potential of allusions to the biblical Song of Songs and its exegetical commentaries. Details of Absolon's address to Alisoun at the window, the descriptions of the two characters, and other details of the Tale parody the commentary tradition and ironically undercut Absolon's professed love for Alisoun.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations