Tradition as Collaboration: The Public and the Private in the Physician's Tale

Author / Editor
Giaccherini, Enrico.

Title
Tradition as Collaboration: The Public and the Private in the Physician's Tale

Published
Silvia Bigliazzi and Sharon Wood, eds. Collaboration in the Arts from the Middle Ages to the Present (Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2006), pp. 7-15.

Series
Studies in European Cultural Transition, no. 35.

Description
Giaccherini reads PhyT as an experiment in "collaboration"--Chaucer's adaptation of the plot from Livy and the Roman de la Rose--that develops a concern for the private realm while downplaying the public.

Contributor
Wood, Sharon, ed.
Bigliazzi, Silvia, ed.

Alternative Title
Collaboration in the Arts from the Middle Ages to the Present.

Chaucer Subjects
Physician and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.