Chaucer, 'The Plowman's Tale' and Renaissance Propaganda: The Testimonies of Thomas Godfray and 'I Playne Piers'
- Author / Editor
- Wawn, Andrew N.
Chaucer, 'The Plowman's Tale' and Renaissance Propaganda: The Testimonies of Thomas Godfray and 'I Playne Piers'
- Published
- Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 56 (1973-74): 174-92.
- Description
- Shows that "The Plowman's Tale" was published (ca. 1536) by Thomas Godfray with a "calculated and propagandist purpose," part of Henry VIII's "propagandist organization" affiliated with Thomas Berthelet, Henry VIII's "official printer." Demonstrates through evidence of its Prologue and through associations with "I playne Piers" that the tale was an "anonymous fifteenth-century tract" before being printed as part of CT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucerian Apocrypha
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