Incident-History-Exemplum-Novella: The Transformation of History in Chaucer's 'Physician's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Fichte, Joerg O.
Incident-History-Exemplum-Novella: The Transformation of History in Chaucer's 'Physician's Tale'
- Published
- Florilegium 5 (1983): 189-207.
- Description
- The "Verginia Story" evolved from Livy to Chaucer in various literary forms, most often the exemplum. Chaucer adapted the story into a novella, developing a new narrative form.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale.