Chaucer's Roman Tales
- Author / Editor
- Hirsh, John C.
Chaucer's Roman Tales
- Published
- Chaucer Review 31 (1996): 45-57.
- Description
- Considers Chaucer's two tales set in ancient Rome--PhyT and SNT--maintaining that each is "particularly concerned with political corruption"; "the depravity of those who wield the state's power has quite undermined it." Hirsh notes a possible "progression" in certain late tales, which "give evidence of a growing authorial disinclination to privilege the ideal and ordered, but rather to engage the incongruous,the eccentric, and palpably false or unjust."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale.
- Second Nun and Her Tale.