Last Things First in Chaucer's Physician's Tale: Final Judgment and the Worm of Conscience
- Author / Editor
- Harley, Marta Powell.
Last Things First in Chaucer's Physician's Tale: Final Judgment and the Worm of Conscience
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 91 (1992): 1-16.
- Description
- Chaucer's four additions to the story of Virginia can be explained, and the whole poem understood, as clarifications of "her allegorical role as the human soul" in rejecting sin.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.