Politics and the Paralysis of the Poetic Imagination in the Physician's Tale

Author / Editor
Delany, Sheila.

Title
Politics and the Paralysis of the Poetic Imagination in the Physician's Tale

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 3 (1981): 47-60.

Description
In contrast to other analogues to PhysT, Chaucer "systematically obliterates social content" to deprive the characters of plausible motives. This "bad piece of work" is "pornographic or free-floating sadistic sensationalism, with murder as its only real centre."

Chaucer Subjects
Physician and His Tale.