'The Wicked Age': Middle English Complaint Literature in Translation

Author / Editor
Tuma, George W., and Dinah Hazell, eds.

Title
'The Wicked Age': Middle English Complaint Literature in Translation

Published
Medieval Forum, Special Issue (2008): n.p.

Description
Second half of a two-part special edition of this electronic journal: an online collection of translations of Middle English texts. The first part translates ten Middle English romances, with introductions, notes, and commentary; this second part is an anthology of complaint literature that includes a variety of texts, arranged topically, with introductions, commentary, and notes. Includes a translation of Chaucer's Sted and "Literature of the Estates," a discussion of GP as an example of estates satire (focusing on the Friar, the Man of Law, and the Guildsmen), compared with Langland's "Piers Plowman" and Gower's "Vox Clamantis."

Contributor
Hazell, Dinah, ed.

Alternative Title
"Literature of the Estates."

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Friar and His Tale
Man of Law and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Lak of Stedfastnesse