The Plowman's Tale: The c. 1532 and 1606 Editions of a Spurious Canterbury Tale
- Author / Editor
- McCarl, Mary Rhinelander, ed.
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