The Physician's Tale as Hagioclasm

Author / Editor
Treharne, Elaine.

Title
The Physician's Tale as Hagioclasm

Published
Myra Seaman, Eileen A. Joy, and Nicola Masciandaro, eds. Dark Chaucer: An Assortment (Brooklyn, N. Y.: Punctum Books, 2012), pp. 161-71.

Description
Reads PhyT as a deliberate inversion of hagiography, seen particularly in its failure to end with any positive consequences of the martyrdom.

Alternative Title
Dark Chaucer: An Assortment.

Chaucer Subjects
Physician and His Tale