Butchers, bakers, brewers, businessmen, farmers, fabric workers, entertainers, comedians, gluttons, lechers, spongers and swindlers, prostitutes and parasites, the pope and his priests, the king and his courtiers, compete for attention in this lively and subversive vision of corruption in fourteenth-century England. The popular tale was altered, expanded, and imitated many times. This recording presents the initial two-dream Vision of Piers Plowman in its simplest and clearest form (the A-text), translated by W. A. Neilson, with an appendix of supplementary episodes from the later B and C texts.
William (or Robert) Langland is the name most often given in early sources to the mysterious author of the fourteenth-century classic Piers Plowman. Very little about him is certain. The work’s narrator describes himself as living in London with his wife Kit, and says that his name is “Will”—but as he converses with characters named “Wisdom,” “Wit,” “Reason,” “Conscience,” etc., this might possibly be a reference to the human will rather than (or as well as) an abbreviation of “William.”View all by William Langland
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