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Chaucer the Rapist? Newly Discovered Documents Suggest Not.

October 13, 2022

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That the author of “The Canterbury Tales” had been accused of rape was long a staple of Chaucer studies. But scholars now suggest it was based on a misreading of court papers from 1380.

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Chaucer the Rapist? Newly Discovered Documents Suggest Not.

That the author of “The Canterbury Tales” had been accused of rape was long a staple of Chaucer studies. But scholars now suggest it was based on a misreading of court papers from 1380.

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