Set Text: A.V.C. Schmidt's
B-Text,
published by Everyman;
Passus 16-20 are set for comment.
Reading
E. Salter: Piers Plowman An
Introduction
M.W. Bloomfield: Piers
Plowman
as Fourteenth-Century Apocalypse
D. Aers: Chaucer, Langland
and
the Creative Imagination
---, : Piers Plowman and
Christian
Allegory (1975)
---,: Community, Gender, and
Individual Identity,Ch. 1
J. Lawlor: Piers Plowman: An
Essay in Criticism
S.S. Hussey ed.: Piers
Plowman:
Critical Approaches
E. Vasta ed.: Interpretations
of Piers Plowman
M. Godden: The Making of
Piers
Plowman (1990)
M. Stokes: Justice and Mercy
in Piers Plowman: A Reading of the B-Text Visio. (1984)
*J. Simpson: Piers Plowman:
An Introduction to the B-Text (1990)
*J.A. Alford: (ed) A
Companion
to Piers Plowman (1988)
* related texts in R.B. Dobson
(ed) The Peasant's Revolt, 2nd ed. (1983)
J. Burrow: 'The Audience of Piers
Plowman' and 'The Action of Langland's Second Vision' in Essays on
Medieval
Literature(1984)
A.Middleton: 'The Audience and
Public of Piers Plowman' in Middle English Alliterative Poetry and
its
Literary Background ed. D.A. Lawton (1982)
A.V.C. Schmidt: The Clerkly
Maker (1987)
R.A. Waldron: 'Langland's
Originality:
Christ-Knight and the Harrowing of Hell' in Medieval English
Religious
and Ethical Literature: Essays in Honour of G.H. Russell. eds. G.
Kratzman
and J. Simpson (1986)
links to:
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