The Miller places his lovers' intrigues in a lower-class context, satirizing the pretensions of long-suffering courtly lovers by portraying Nicholas and Alisoun ...

In Oxford there lives a rich old carpenter. Boarding at his house is a poor young scholar, Nicholas, who is very learned in astrology and can also sing well ...

John, an old and very jealous carpenter who is married to an 18-year-old girl named Alison, rents a room to a young astrology student named Nicholas.

Continuations. The 15th-century Tale of Beryn depicts the Miller trying and failing to explain the stained glass windows of Canterbury cathedral.

9 сент. 2024 г. · This bawdy story of lust and revenge is told by a drunken, churlish Miller. Alison, the young wife of a carpenter, takes their boarder Nicholas as her lover.

The Miller's Tale is a bawdy retelling of the Knight's Tale and the Reeve's Tale (which follows) features an insulting story about a miller.

Short Summary: John, a rich old carpenter of Oxford has a young wife, the eighteen-year-old Alisoun, whom he guards carefully, ...

The plot of The Miller's Tale follows Alisoun and Nicholas' illicit romance. The story opens with Nicholas' seduction of Alisoun, but Alisoun fears the ... The Miller from The... · The Role of The Miller in The...

The Miller presents his tale as though he will be describing the life of a saint, but the story he tells is bawdy and full of raunchy jokes. The Reeve thinks ...

15 сент. 2024 г. · The Miller starts to introduce a tale about how a clerk “set the cappe of” (made a fool out of) a carpenter and his wife, but is immediately interrupted by the ...