'Parfit Praktisour' or Quack? : Chaucer's Physician and the Literary Image of Doctors After the Black Death

Author / Editor
Snell, William.

Title
'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.