The Ploughman's Tale.
- Author / Editor
- Cannon, Christopher.
The Ploughman's Tale.
- Published
- Yearbook of Langland Studies 32 (2018): 315-31.
- Description
- Argues that Mel and Langland's "Piers Plowman" share common features that derive from medieval school texts: axioms and proverbs, recurrent attention to the "Distiches of Cato," and citational and translational practices grounded in school exercises. In these ways, Mel is Chaucer's most "Langlandian" text and, though Chaucer lends it credibility by assigning it to his Canterbury persona, he might well have assigned it to his Plowman.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Melibee
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations