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From the ‘Miller’s Tale’ to King Lear’s roaring sea, a history of flooding in literature

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From the ‘Miller’s Tale’ to King Lear’s roaring sea, a history of flooding in literature

[ad_1] Geoffrey Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale is renowned for its salacious storyline of sexual misadventure. Set in 14th-century Oxford, it tells the tale of John the Carpenter, a husband so terrified that another “Noah’s flood” is coming to drown the world that he sleeps in a basket in the attic – freeing his wife to bed … Read more