This is a domestic drama about the relationship between a daughter and her father and it is one of the earliest poems in English about such subjects and relationships.
Virginius, a nobleman of Rome, has a beautiful, fourteen-year-old daughter. She is spotted one day by a judge, Appius, who decides he must have her and forms a plan. His accomplice, a "churl" by the name of Claudius, claims in court that Virginia is his run-away slave and Appius decrees that her real father must relinquish her to the court. Virginius goes home and tells his daughter he must kill her to protect her honour. She resigns herself to her fate and swoons, and he cuts her head off. He takes her head to the court and when Appius demands his exucution for murder, the populace instead rises up and deposes the corrupt official. Appius kills himself in jail, but Virginius spares Claudius' life and condemns him to exile instead.
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 story is considered one of the moral tales, along with the Parson's Tale and the Knight's Tale. However, the fate of Virginius rende4rs questionable the moral assertion at the story's end. The Host enjoys the tale and feels for the daughrer but asks the Pardoner for a more merry tale. The Pardoner obliges and his tale has a similar but contrasting moral message.
Virginius, a nobleman of Rome, has a beautiful, fourteen-year-old daughter. She is spotted one day by a judge, Appius, who decides he must have her and forms a plan. His accomplice, a "churl" by the name of Claudius, claims in court that Virginia is his run-away slave and Appius decrees that her real father must relinquish her to the court. Virginius goes home and tells his daughter he must kill her to protect her honour. She resigns herself to her fate and swoons, and he cuts her head off. He takes her head to the court and when Appius demands his exucution for murder, the populace instead rises up and deposes the corrupt official. Appius kills himself in jail, but Virginius spares Claudius' life and condemns him to exile instead. 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 story is considered one of the moral tales, along with the Parson's Tale and the Knight's Tale. However, the fate of Virginius rende4rs questionable the moral assertion at the story's end. The Host enjoys the tale and feels for the daughrer but asks the Pardoner for a more merry tale. The Pardoner obliges and his tale has a similar but contrasting moral message.
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