Modern Times: The Discourse of the 'Physician's Tale'

Author / Editor
Hirsh, John C.

Title
Modern Times: The Discourse of the 'Physician's Tale'

Published
Chaucer Review 27 (1993): 387-95.

Description
The lack of popularity of PhyT may derive in part from the separate, seemingly modern, aesthetic it espouses--one designed not to "define virtue and suppress vice" but to illustrate a sense of "randomness and discontinuity" that anticipates a new world view.

Chaucer Subjects
Physician and His Tale.