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El cuento del molinero de Geoffrey Chaucer, parte de Los cuentos de Canterbury, es un fabliau, una narración cómica y a menudo obscena. La historia gira en torno al personaje de Nicholas, un estudiante de Oxford, y las complicaciones que surgen de su relación amorosa con Alison, la joven esposa del carpintero John. La historia está llena de ingeniosos engaños, humor y elementos de farsa. Chaucer teje hábilmente una exploración satírica de la locura humana, el deseo y las consecuencias del engaño.

King Richard the Lionheart is dead, and his brother, John Lackland, sits uneasily upon the throne of England. Across the sea, Prince Louis, heir to the powerful King Philip Augustus of France, looks to King John’s crown with a covetous eye. But King John must be wary of rebellion, as well as invasion, for even his own barons would see their king unseated, and the French pretender put in his place. Thrust amid this tumult is young Estienne Wace, orphan squire to Earl William Marshal – the greatest knight to ever serve the kings of England.