Narration in Two Versions of "Virginius and Virginia."
- Author / Editor
- Spearing, A. C.
Narration in Two Versions of "Virginius and Virginia."
- Published
- Chaucer Review 54.1 (2019): 1–34.
- Description
- Compares Chaucer's and Gower's versions of the story of Virginia, her rape, and death, remarking upon their various similarities and differences. Building upon that comparison, offers correctives for how a narrator might be used for old texts in general, and these tales in particular, by arguing that Chaucer's PhyT is not told by an unreliable narrator, but by Chaucer himself.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations