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With his Miller's Tale, Chaucer transformed a colorless Middle Dutch account into the lively, dramatic story of raunchy Nicholas, sexy Alison, foolish John and squeamish Absolon. This book focuses on the ways Chaucer made his narrative more effective through dialogue, scene division, music, visual effects and staging. The author pays special attention to the description of John the carpenter's house, the suspension of the three tubs from the beams, and the famous shot-window through which the story's bawdy climax is enacted.
The book's second half covers more than 30 of the tale's retellings--translations, adaptations, bowdlerized versions for children, coloring books, novels, musicals, plays and films--and examines the ways the retellers have followed Chaucer in dramatizing the story, giving it new life on stage and screen. The Miller's Tale has had many lives--it promises to have many more.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vi
Preface: A Whiter Shade of Pale 1
Introduction: Dramatizing the Miller's Tale 3
Part One: Chaucer's
Transformation of the Miller's Tale
I. Origins 9
II. Four Genres 15
III. Seeing and Hearing 30
IV. Comedic Realism 38
V. The Structure of John's House 48
VI. The Shot-Window 60
VII. Reconstructing John's House 81
VIII. People and Props 87
IX. The Pre-Bedroom Sequence 93
X. The Bedroom Sequence 108
Part Two: Modern Transformations of the Miller's Tale
XI. Early Retellings for Adults: Cobb (1712), Smith (1713), Anonymous (1791) 125
XII. Early Retellings for Young Readers: Johnstone (1895), Darton (1904), Farjeon (1930) 132
XIII. Later Retellings for Adults: Clarke (1870), Haweis (1887), Raffel (2008), Ackroyd (2009) 138
XIV. Later Retellings for Young Readers: McCaughrean (1984), Hastings (1988) 145
XV. In the Modern Missouri Ozarks: Milburn (1956) 151
XVI. In Coloring Books and Cartoons: Adkins (1973), Lorenz (1981), Williams (2007), Chwast (2011) 169
XVII. In Musical Performance: Starkie (1968), Pickering (1988), Brinkman (2006) 183
XVIII. In Theatrical Performance: Woods (1974), Wengrow (1983), Riley (1998), O'Connor (2001), Price (2002), Poulton (2005) 195
XIX. In Filmic Performance: Pasolini (1972), Myerson (2000), Bowker (2003) 217
XX. In San Francisco and Southwark: Miller (2014), Machin (2014) 227
Chapter Notes 251
Bibliography 267
Index 273
