The "Miller's Tale": An Interpretation,
- Author / Editor
- Bolton, W. F.
The "Miller's Tale": An Interpretation,
- Published
- Mediaeval Studies 24 (1962): 83-94.
- Description
- Argues that the "organization and success" of MilT depends upon the "dramatic irony" of tensions between its courtly and common, sacred and profane, and realistic and fantastic elements, exploring such tensions in the signifying names of the characters, triplet patterning of the male protagonists and "three principal sins," and several scriptural allusions.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations