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oapen-20.500.12657-472092023-06-05T13:09:22Z The Myth of Piers Plowman Warner, Lawrence criticism and interpretation authorship Geoffrey Chaucer Latin London Manuscript Piers Plowman William Langland bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies Addressing the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem, Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner reveals the many ways in which scholars, editors and critics over the centuries created their own speculative narratives about the poem, which gradually came to be regarded as factually true. Warner begins by considering the possibility that Langland wrote a romance about a werewolf and bear-suited lovers, and he goes on to explore the methods of the poem's localization, and medieval readers' particular interest in its Latinity. Warner shows that the 'Protestant Piers' was a reaction against the poem's oral mode of transmission, reveals the extensive eighteenth-century textual scholarship on the poem by figures including the maligned Chaucer editor John Urry, and contextualizes its first modernization by a literary forger inspired by the 1790s Shakespeare controversies. This lively account of Piers Plowman challenges the way the poem has traditionally been read and understood. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched. 2018-06-27 23:55 2014-04-10 00:00:00 2020-04-01T14:45:31Z 2020-04-01T14:45:31Z 2014 book 472471 649973 9781107338821 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33437 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47209 eng Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature application/pdf n/a 472471.pdf http://www.cambridge.org/9781107043633 Cambridge University Press 10.1017/CBO9781107338821 103415 10.1017/CBO9781107338821 7607a2d0-47af-490f-9d2a-8c9340266f8a b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781107338821 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 242 Cambridge, UK - New York, USA 103415 KU Pilot Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Addressing the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem, Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner reveals the many ways in which scholars, editors and critics over the centuries created their own speculative narratives about the poem, which gradually came to be regarded as factually true. Warner begins by considering the possibility that Langland wrote a romance about a werewolf and bear-suited lovers, and he goes on to explore the methods of the poem's localization, and medieval readers' particular interest in its Latinity. Warner shows that the 'Protestant Piers' was a reaction against the poem's oral mode of transmission, reveals the extensive eighteenth-century textual scholarship on the poem by figures including the maligned Chaucer editor John Urry, and contextualizes its first modernization by a literary forger inspired by the 1790s Shakespeare controversies. This lively account of Piers Plowman challenges the way the poem has traditionally been read and understood. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.
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