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Article: Olde case files: Scholars try to solve a medieval mystery: the fate of Geoffrey Chaucer.
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- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
- Article date:
- February 2, 2005
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Byline: Jerome Weeks
``Who Murdered Chaucer? A Medieval Mystery'' by Terry Jones, Robert Yeager, Alan Fletcher, Juliette Dor, Terry Dolan; Thomas Dunne ($29.95)
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No writer looms larger in medieval literature than Geoffrey Chaucer, although to students that's perhaps due more to his flatulent jokes than the beauties of "The General Prologue" ("Whan that April with his showres soote/The droughte of March hath perced to the roote").
Chaucer looms large, of course, for the earthy, humane comedy of ``The Canterbury Tales.'' But he also promoted a vernacular English and what became the metrical precursor of iambic pentameter. ...