The Voice of Labour in Fourteenth-Century English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Knight, Stephen.
The Voice of Labour in Fourteenth-Century English Literature
- Published
- James Bothwell, P. J. P. Goldberg, and W. M. Ormrod, eds. The Problem of Labour in Fourteenth-Century England (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press, 2000), pp. 101-22.
- Description
- Knight considers Chaucer's Plowman (among other figures) in an effort to construct a "structure of feeling" pertinent to late-medieval English labor. As in the mystery plays and in Piers Plowman, the depiction of labor in CT is first idealized, then undercut.
- Alternative Title
- The Problem of Labour in Fourteenth-Century England.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales-General.
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.