Teaching Langland's and Chaucer's Prologues.
- Author / Editor
- Clopper, Lawrence M.
Teaching Langland's and Chaucer's Prologues.
- Published
- Thomas A. Goodmann, ed. Approaches to Teaching Langland's "Piers Plowman" (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2018), pp. 112-19.
- Description
- Treats GP and Langland's Prologue in relation to the traditional model of three estates, arguing that the order of the pilgrims in GP reveals inadequacies in the "trifunctional model" (fight, pray, labor) and alludes to the Fall of Humanity in the sequence of Wife of Bath (Eve), Parson (mediator), and Plowman (Adam). Prompts students to explore working versus wandering in Langland's Prologue as categories that complicate the three-estates model.
- Contributor
- Goodmann, Thomas A., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Approaches to Teaching Langland's "Piers Plowman"
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations