Narration in Two Versions of "Virginius and Virginia."

Author / Editor
Spearing, A. C.

Title
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