For Love and Not For Hate: The Value of Virginity in Chaucer's 'Physician's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Mathewson, Jeanne T.
For Love and Not For Hate: The Value of Virginity in Chaucer's 'Physician's Tale'
- Published
- Annuale Mediaevale 14 (1973): 35-42.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer's additions to his sources in PhyT (Virginia's speech and the reference to Jephthah's daughter) convey a sense of masculine blindness to feminine reality--seeing only the "transient conditions of beauty, youth, and virginity."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations