'Parfit Praktisour' or Quack? : Chaucer's Physician and the Literary Image of Doctors After the Black Death
- Author / Editor
- Snell, William.
'Parfit Praktisour' or Quack? : Chaucer's Physician and the Literary Image of Doctors After the Black Death
- Published
- Hiyoshi Review of English Studies (Keio University) 37: 117-36, 2000.
- Description
- Argues that critical interpretations of Chaucer's Physician as a quack have been based on the moral outrage and stock literary character of a later age.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale.