The Plowman's Tale: The c. 1532 and 1606 Editions of a Spurious Canterbury Tale

Author / Editor
McCarl, Mary Rhinelander, ed.

Title
The Plowman's Tale: The c. 1532 and 1606 Editions of a Spurious Canterbury Tale

Published
New York and London: Garland, 1997.

Physical Description
318 pp.

Series
The Renaissance Imagination.

Description
Prints two versions of "The Plowman's Tale" (ca. 1400)--the 1533 edition originally intended for publication in Francis Thynne's 1532 edition of Chaucer's "Works" but suppressed and the 1606 edition by additional explanatory notes, a glossary and index, and a sixty-five-page introduction exploring the textual history of the poem, its Lollard roots and Puritan response, and its relations with Chaucer's corpus.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucerian Apocrypha.
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
Plowman and the Tale