Pygmalion in the "Physician's Tale."

Author / Editor
Hoffman, Richard L.

Title
Pygmalion in the "Physician's Tale."

Published
American Notes and Queries 5.6 (1967): 83-84.

Description
Interprets the allusion to Pygmalion in PhyT (6.7-18) as an indication of Apius's "concupiscence," drawing on depictions of Pygmalion in Ovid's "Metamorphoses" and Jean de Meun's "Roman de la Rose."

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