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Fragment I / Group A
The General Prologue
The Knight's Tale
The Miller's Prologue &
Tale
The Reeve's Prologue & Tale
The Cook's Prologue & Tale
Fragment II / Group B1
The Man of Law's
Introduction, Prologue, Tale, & Epilogue
Fragment III /
Group D
The Wife of Bath's
Prologue & Tale
The Friar's Prologue & Tale
The Summoner's Prologue
& Tale
Fragment IV /
Group E
The
Clerk's Prologue & Tale
The Merchant's Prologue,
Tale, & Epilogue
Fragment V / Group F
The
Squire's Introduction & Tale
The Franklin's Prologue
& Tale
Fragment VI /
Group C
The Physician's Tale
The Pardoner's Introduction,
Prologue, & Tale
Fragment VII /
Group B2
The Shipman's Tale
The Prioress's Prologue
& Tale
The Prologue & Tale
of Sir Thopas
The Tale of Melibee
The Monk's Prologue & Tale
The Nun's Priest's Prologue,
Tale, & Epilogue
Fragment VIII /
Group G
The
Second Nun's Prologue & Tale
The Canon's Yeoman's
Prologue & Tale
Fragment IX /
Group H
The Manciple's
Prologue & Tale
Fragment X /
Group I
The Parson's Prologue
& Tale
The Retraction
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Troilus
and Criseyde
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The
Physician's Tale
1. In Middle English
The Physician's
Tale at the UVa Electronic Text Center
Read the
Physician's Tale in the context of Fragment
VI - Group C
2. In Modern English Translation
Scott
Gettman's edition of the Canterbury
Tales (Electronic Literature Foundation) is accessible by individual tale &
available in a variety of formats: Middle English, Modern English, Facing Page,
& Interpolated - Glossed (frames; from unknown base text).
- Although unsuitable for formal research or college work, the
ELF is the best online version for younger readers and those unfamiliar with Middle
English. Easily navigable, and the Middle English glosses are very helpful.
The Litrix Reading Room translation
of the Canterbury Tales features rhyming couplets.
Sinan Kökbugur's helpfully glossed hypertext Middle English rendition of the complete Canterbury Tales is available at the Librarius page. Use the Table of
Contents in the left frame to click on a specific Tale, and difficult terms and phrases
are glossed in the lower frame.
3. Historical & Cultural Backgrounds
The
online National Library of Medicine houses a collection of Images from the History of Medicine, including some
from the medieval period.
Islamic
Medical Manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine catalogues a
variety of important medical texts from medieval
Islam:
Hippocratic Writings:
Galenic Writings:
Alexandrian Summaries
4. Sources, Analogues, & Related Texts
A number of scholars believe that the Physician's Tale was written prior
to the composition of the Canterbury Tales, during the era of The
Legend of Good Women (Douglas Killings, OMACL). Compare the
Physician's Tale to the vignettes in the LGW.
Medieval
Psychology and the Theory of the Four Humors, from Gower's Confessio Amantis, Book
VII, lines 380-520
5. Online Notes & Commentary
Discussion and links concerning the Physician's Tale on Larry
D. Benson's superlative Geoffrey Chaucer
Page (Harvard). Includes e-texts of scholarly essays, sources and ancillary texts, and
capsule discussions of key issues. Some of the items related to the Physician's Tale
include:
Medicine
in Chaucer's Time (Australian Broadcasting Corp.) is the transcript of
a television program in which Chaucer's Physician is used to explain
medicine and medical training in the Middle Ages.
6. Online Books & Articles
From the University
of California Press's E-Scholarship initiative comes this title
dealing with Livy, Chaucer's ultimate source for the Physician's
Tale:
The articles from Cultural
Frictions: Medieval Cultural Studies in Post-Modern Contexts Conference Proceedings
(27-28 October 1995) are online, including:
Essays in Medieval Studies
features full-text articles from the proceedings of the Illinois Medieval Association,
online version edited by Allen J. Frantzen (Loyola - Chicago), including:
Chaucer's
"Historial Thynge Notable": Elements of Schismatic Heresy in the
Performances of the Physician, Pardoner, and Shipman (Frederick
Martin, Tulane U), from an ongoing e-project melding critical and cultural
theory & medieval studies. See Martin's e-dissertation in progress, Pilgrimage
in the Age of Schism: Chaucer, Sociological Poetics, and the Canterbury
Tales.
7. Student Projects & Essays
Anniina Jokkinen's Essays and Articles on Chaucer
includes a number of sample student essays, of varying quality. Like any other
source, student essays must be evaluated rigorously, cited correctly, and used
responsibly.
8. Online Bibliography
9. Syllabi & Course
Descriptions
10. Images & Multimedia
11. Language Helps & Audio Files
12. Potpourri
13. The Next Step
How to Document
Print & Electronic Sources:
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Documentation Primer
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