6 Rough Girls and Squeamish Boys: The Trouble with Absolon in The Miller’s Tale

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction: Literature and History: The Risks of Conversation 1
5. Part I: Drama
6. 1 Early Tudor Drama and the Arts of Resistance 13
7. 2 ‘To Speak before the King, it is no Child’s Play’: Godly Queen Hester in 1529 36
8. 3 Flytyng in the Face of Convention: Protest and Innovation in Lindsay’s Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis 63
9. Part II: Poetry, 1380–1532
10. 4 Courtesy and Chivalry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 93
11. 5 The Plowman’s Tale and the Politics of 1532: A Cautionary Tale? 121
12. 6 Rough Girls and Squeamish Boys: The Trouble with Absolon in The Miller’s Tale 169
13. Index 199