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History Contra Poetics in The Physician’s Tale
There is no introduction to “The Physician’s Tale.” We begin en media res. The tale cites its source as Titius Livius (“Livy”) the great Roman historian, though Chaucer likely borrowed sections from The Romance of the Rose which he also partially translated from French into Middle English. Unlike other tales, “The Physician’s Tale” is not […]
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