"Is ther no remedye?" A Question of Battered Women's Agency in Chaucer's "Physician's Tale."

Author / Editor
Lee, Sun Young.

Title
"Is ther no remedye?" A Question of Battered Women's Agency in Chaucer's "Physician's Tale."

Published
Feminist Studies in English Literature 25.3 (2017): 35-66.

Description
Considers how PhyT prompts attention to "issues of female victimization and women's agency in litigation process," exploring Chaucer's alterations of his source material in Livy and the "Roman de la Rose," and examining how his tale evokes late medieval legal process through the plea of Virginia, her father's "judicial discretion," and the response of the "peple" to the proceedings before the corrupt Apius. Includes attention to the terminology of "rape" and the 1382 Statute of Rapes.

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