The Textual Archaeology of The Plowman's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Walker, Greg.
The Textual Archaeology of The Plowman's Tale
- Published
- Anne Marie D'Arcy and Alan J. Fletcher, eds. Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood (Dublin: Four Courts, 2005), pp. 375-401.
- Description
- Argues that The Plowman's Tale was composed in a complex process of interpolations and revisions (evident in various metrical schemes) that reflect various political and doctrinal agendas. Walker suggests a five-stage process of composition that began ca. 1400 and extended into the 1530s.
- Alternative Title
- Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucerian Apocrypha
- Plowman and the Tale