Commonality and Literary Form in the 1370s and 1380s

Author / Editor
Steiner, Emily.

Title
Commonality and Literary Form in the 1370s and 1380s

Published
New Medieval Literatures 6 (2003): 199-22.

Description
Steiner assesses political "clamor," "appeal," and "voice," using them to discuss the Prologue to "Piers Plowman" as a work in which "commonality" is "the poem's ideological subject and poetic process." Suggests briefly that the same is true of PF.

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls.