Chaucer's Physician's Tale: authority, sovereignty, and power

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The Physician's story in Chaucers Canterbury Tales and its connections with the story-teller has always been a puzzle for literary critics. The purpose of this paper is to articulate a possible explanation of the plot and its connection with the teller by analysing the physician-narrator's discourse together with Chaucers additions to the original narrative, and the author's treatment of the concepts of authority, sovereignty and power in relation to the story-teller and the characters depicted in the story. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
La historia del médico en los Cuentos de Canterbury de Chaucer y sus conexiones con el narrador siempre han sido un enigma para los críticos literarios. El objetivo de este artículo es articular una posible explicación de la trama y su conexión con el narrador mediante el análisis del discurso del médico-narrador junto con las adiciones de Chaucer a la narración original, y el tratamiento que da el autor a los conceptos de autoridad, soberanía y poder en relación con el narrador y los personajes que aparecen en la historia.

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Carrillo Linares, M. J. (2019). Chaucer’s Physician’s Tale: authority, sovereignty, and power. SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature, 17, 91–109. https://doi.org/10.17811/selim.17.2010.91-109

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