Pygmalion in the "Physician's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Hoffman, Richard L.
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