Comic Irony in "The Miller's Tale."

Author / Editor
Siegel, Paul N.

Title
Comic Irony in "The Miller's Tale."

Published
Boston University Studies in English 4 (1960): 114-20.

Description
Locates comic irony in several religious references and allusions in MilT, especially as they help to characterize Alison, Nicholas, and Absolon; the "final irony" is that the Miller is himself unaware of this irony.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale