Chaucer rape allegations: What the newly found British National Archives document tells us about this old story.
Scholars have long used rape allegations against Chaucer to spice up their biographies. Now what?
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Scholars have long used rape allegations against Chaucer to spice up their biographies. Now what?
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.