The Appropriateness of "The Physician's Tale" to Its Teller.

Author / Editor
Ussery, Huling E.

Title
The Appropriateness of "The Physician's Tale" to Its Teller.

Published
Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 50 (1965): 545-56.

Description
Maintains that the PhyT was "specifically adapted especially to the Physician as teller," arguing that the opening of the Tale and its rhetoric reflect the arts training common to late-medieval physicians, that various details reflect the teller's "professional interest in medicine," and that these details are found in portions of the Tale original to Chaucer.

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