Jephthah's Daughter and Chaucer's Virginia: The Critique of Sacrifice in The Physician's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Kline, Daniel T.
Jephthah's Daughter and Chaucer's Virginia: The Critique of Sacrifice in The Physician's Tale
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 107 (2008): 77-103.
- Description
- Virginius's fatal encounter with his daughter Virginia in PhyT can be seen as an instance of "torture," as Elaine Scarry defines it, the "most extreme" of political situations. In Scarry's terms and from Virginius's perspective,Virginia's existence lacks legitimacy.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale