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" The Physician's Tale " is one of The Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century. It is a domestic drama about the relationship between a daughter and her father, based on a tale from the Histories of Titus Livius and retold in The Romance of the Rose.
A summary and analysis of Chaucer's The Physician's Tale, a story of a father who kills his daughter to protect her virginity from a corrupt judge. Learn about the moral, the allegory, and the historical context of this tale from The Canterbury Tales.
The Physician 's Tale. As Titus Livius tells us, there was once a knight called Virginius who had many friends, much wealth, and a loving wife and daughter. The daughter possessed a beauty so great that even Pygmalion could not have created her equal. She was also humble in speech and avoided events which might compromise her virtue.
A summary of Chaucer's retelling of the Roman story of Virginia and Appius, attributed to Livy. Learn about the sources, the moral, and the criticism of this tale in The Canterbury Tales.
The Physician’s Tale, one of the 24 stories in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The tale is a version of a story related both by the Roman historian Livy and in the 13th-century Roman de la Rose. It concerns the lust of the evil judge Appius for the beautiful, chaste Virginia.
A medieval story of a virtuous maiden and her father, told by a physician in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Read the original Middle English text and a modern translation, with commentary and analysis.
An essay on Chaucer's adaptation of the Roman story of Virginius and Virginia, who is killed by her father for her chastity. The essay explores the Tale's focus on children, violence, and ethics, and its place in the Canterbury Tales' "Children's Cluster".
