Will's visions of Piers Plowman, do-well, do-better, and do-best
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Will's visions of Piers Plowman, do-well, do-better, and do-best
(Piers Plowman (Three versions), 2)
Athlone Press , University of California Press, 1988
Rev. ed
- : us
- : uk
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Piers Plowman II : the B version
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Piers the Plowman
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At head of title: Piers Plowman : the B version
"An edition in the form of Trinity College, Cambridge MS B.15.17, corrected and restored from the known evidence, with variant readings."
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William Langland's 14th-century poem Piers Plowman is a disturbing and often humorous commentary on corruption and greed that remains meaningful today. The allegorical and satirical work revolves around the narrator's quest to live a good life, and takes the form of a series of dreams in which Piers, the honest plowman, appears in various guises. Characters such as Conscience, Fidelity and Charity tumble out of the text alongside Falsehood and Guile, and are instantly recognizable as our present-day politicians and celebrities, friends and neighbors. Along the way social issues are confronted, including governance, economic relations, criminal justice, public finance, marital relations and the limits of academic learning, as well as religious belief and the natural world.
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