'I Playne Piers' and the Protestant Plowman Prints: The Transformation of a Medieval Figure

Author / Editor
Cawsey, Kathy.

Title
'I Playne Piers' and the Protestant Plowman Prints: The Transformation of a Medieval Figure

Published
Kathy Cawsey and Jason Harris, eds. Transmission and Transformation in the Middle Ages: Texts and Contexts (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), pp. 189-206.

Description
Cawsey surveys the legacy of the plowman figure in England from the late Middle Ages into the Renaissance, focusing on the composite work "I Playne Piers." The Plowman's Tale was used and reused in multiple ways, presented variously by editors and compilers.

Alternative Title
Transmission and Transformation in the Middle Ages: Texts and Contexts.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucerian Apocrypha
Plowman and the Tale