Framing Chaucer's Plowman.
- Author / Editor
- Ensley, Mimi.
Framing Chaucer's Plowman.
- Published
- Yearbook of English Studies 32 (2018): 333-51.
- Description
- Argues that the scriptural glosses found in Thomas Godfray's 1535 publication of "The Ploughman’s Tale" are similar to Langland's techniques in "Piers Plowman," as are the "poem’s anticlericism and alliteration"; when Godfray republished the tale in William Thynne's "Works of Geoffrey Chaucer"(2nd ed., 1542), new paratextual apparatus aligned the poem with CT. Each of these paratextual frames helps "to protect the text from censors while cultivating the wide audience sought by financially savvy printers."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucerian Apocrypha
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