Chaucer's Use of the Mystery Plays in the "Miller's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Harder, Kelsie B.
Chaucer's Use of the Mystery Plays in the "Miller's Tale."
- Published
- Modern Language Quarterly 17 (1956): 193-98.
- Description
- Identifies sources for a number of instances in MilT where Chaucer parodies, ridicules, or alludes to mystery plays—most evident in the characterizations of the Miller and Absolon as influenced by stage-versions of Pilate and/or Herod and the parody of a Noah play in the "carpenter episode."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations