A Bared Bottom and a Basket: A New Analogue and a New Source for the Miller's Tale

Biggs examines the new analogue and source for the Miller's Tale in the pages of Chaucer Review. Shedding some light on the tale, he distinguishes more generally between these textual relationships. The works in question are two of the four fabliaux in the Harley Manuscript, recently published...

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Published in:Notes and queries 2009-09, Vol.56 (3), p.340-341
Main Author: Biggs, Frederick M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Literary criticism
Revard, Carter
Writers
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Summary:Biggs examines the new analogue and source for the Miller's Tale in the pages of Chaucer Review. Shedding some light on the tale, he distinguishes more generally between these textual relationships. The works in question are two of the four fabliaux in the Harley Manuscript, recently published and translated by Carter Revard. While Revard compares the scribe--possibly a household cleric for Joan Mortimer Talbot, Lady of Richard's Castle (on the Herefordshire/Shropshire border, three miles south of Ludlow, or Sir Laurence Ludlow of Stokesay--he does not make the specific connections adduced here, apparently because if, as has previously been assumed, Heile van Bersele represents Chaucer's source, there is little reason to notice other examples of individual motifs.
ISSN:0029-3970
1471-6941
DOI:10.1093/notesj/gjp074