Governance in the 'Physician's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Mandel, Jerome.
Governance in the 'Physician's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 10 (1976): 316-25.
- Description
- PhyT treats appearance and reality, fraud and honesty at the individual, familial, political, and cosmic levels of governance. Virginius' pardon of Claudius can be seen as an act that, on the cosmic level, affirms God's charitable governance and returns a chaotic world to its highest order.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale.