The Creation of Consent in the Physician's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Farber, Lianna.
The Creation of Consent in the Physician's Tale
- Published
- Chaucer Review 39 (2004): 151-64
- Description
- Chaucer's changes to source material emphasize what shapes a person and how she comes to understand and experience the world. If Virginia had continued to refuse her father and Virginius had cut off his daughter's head despite her protests, the Tale would have been one of tyranny. Because she agrees that there is no other choice, it is clear that he educated her and taught her to understand reality.
- Also published in Fraber's An Anatomy of Trade in Medieval Writing (2006).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations