The Doctor's Dilemma: A Comic View of the 'Physician's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Longsworth, Robert (M.)
The Doctor's Dilemma: A Comic View of the 'Physician's Tale'
- Published
- Criticism 13 (1971): 223-33.
- Description
- Characterizes the Physician of GP as "inscrutable," although "smelling mildly of hypocrisy," and argues that the "narrative uneasiness" of PhyT is well suited to this "man of the world [who] seeks to mask his worldliness in affected piety." The Jephthah exemplum of PhyT reflects the teller's "morally disarranged imagination" and the moralization of the Tale discloses that his espousal of a moral consciousness is a "sham."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale