However, the fate of Virginius renders questionable the moral assertion at the story's end. The story is considered one of the moral tales, along with the Parson's tale and the Knight's tale. Chaucer's words on the virtues of governesses were potentially influenced by this. Elizabeth's governess was Katherine Swynford, who was also Gaunt's mistress and later wife. The long digression on governesses possibly alludes to a historical event and may serve to date it: in 1386 Elizabeth, the daughter of John of Gaunt, eloped to France with John Hastings, 3rd Earl of Pembroke. 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, as well as John Gower's Confessio Amantis, which Chaucer drew on for inspiration, and the biblical story of Jephtha.Īlthough difficult to date like most of Chaucer's tales, the Physician's tale is usually regarded as an early work of Chaucer probably written before much of the rest of the Canterbury Tales was begun. " The Physician's Tale" is one of The Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century.
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