He also, of course, adds a particular dimension all his own to a tale of wicked bawdiness and bare asses. The Millers Tale Geoffrey Chaucer 3. This recording of The Miller's Tale is a translation from the Middle English into modern language by the leading Chaucerian scholar, Terry Jones - yes, the Python one - who adds to his truly scholarly rendition of the text a smattering of highly useful and fascinating notes, recorded as he read. The choice of pilgrims for his characters allowed Chaucer to put together types that wouldn't usually associate let alone talk. Before that an author had merely put together a group of pieces that he considered interesting, in no particular order and with no connecting narrative.Ĭhaucer chose a meeting between pilgrims at the Tabard Inn on the road to Canterbury to provide the linking narrative for his Canterbury Tales.Ī group of pilgrims swap their tales, with a thoroughly human competitiveness and retaliatory jousting. It was also one of the first books to create a link between all the pieces of work in a literary collection. It established English as an acceptable language for literature, where previously it had been almost exclusively Latin or Norman French. The Canterbury Tales broke the literary mould in many ways. In his own inimitable style, Terry Jones leads you through Chaucer's filthy and very funny tale of adultery, the feared coming of the second flood and burnt bums. "The Miller's Tale." The Canterbury Tales. For example, this ribald story stands in stark contrast to the tale of knightly romance in "The Knight's Tale."Ĭhaucer, Geoffrey.
As Chaucer (3732-3734) writes, "And at the window out she put her hole, / And Absolon, to him it happened no better nor worse, / But with his mouth he kissed her naked ass." Clearly this tale of cuckolding and low-brow humor is meant to stand in stark contrast to tales of knightly love and romance that were very popular during the period. The tales turns into low-brow bawdy humor when Alison tricks Absolon into kissing her rear end when he thinks he is going to be able to steal a kiss.
The pair concocts a scheme to be able to be alone out of the husband's sight. Nicholas believes as a "clerk" he can outwit the old "carpenter," (Chaucer 3299-3300).
Astrology was popular during the era and the student tells the old man that astrology has provided him with a vision of a great flood, "All his desire / Was tuned to learning astrology (Chaucer 3192-93). Nicholas concocts an elaborate scheme about the coming of a flood, so he can secretly make love to the jealous old man's wife. "The Miller's Tale" is the story of a naïve old landlord who is duped by his a young student, Nicholas. "The Miller's Tale" is an example of low-brow comedy that is aimed at providing humor in the work in contrast to tales of courtly love also included. The various tales in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales range from the pious to the bawdy.
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