Simkin's Camus Nose: A Latin Pun in the "Reeve's Tale"?
- Author / Editor
- Steadman, John M.
Simkin's Camus Nose: A Latin Pun in the "Reeve's Tale"?
- Published
- Modern Language Notes 75.1 (1960): 4-8.
- Description
- Suggests that the miller's name in RvT, Simkin, puns on Latin "simus," meaning "snub-nosed," offering classical examples of similar wordplay and identifying characters with similar names in classical comedy.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Reeve and His Tale
Language and Word Studies
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations