ISBN:
9781107338821
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in medieval literature 89
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in medieval literature
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Warner, Lawrence, 1968 - The myth of Piers Plowman
Keywords:
Langland, William Criticism and interpretation
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Langland, William Authorship
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Langland, William Criticism, Textual
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Langland, William,, 1330?-1400?
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Langland, William,, 1330?-1400? Authorship
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Langland, William,, 1330?-1400? Criticism and interpretation
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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Literature & literary studies
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Langland, William 1332-1400 Piers Plowman
Abstract:
"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"--
Abstract:
"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"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: archive fever and the madness of Joseph RitsonWilliam and the werewolf: the problem of William of Palerne -- Localizing Piers Plowman C: Meed, Corfe castle, and the London Riot of 1384 -- Latinitas et communitas Visionis Willielmi de Longlond -- "Quod piers plowman" : non-reformist prophecy, c.1520-1555 -- Urry, Burrell, and the pains of John Taylor: the Spelman MS, 1709-1766 -- William Dupré, fabricateur: Piers Plowman in the age of forgery, c.1794-1802 -- Conclusion: Leland's madness and the tale of Piers Plowman.
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half title; Series title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; A note on citations; Introduction: archive fever and the madness of Joseph Ritson; Chapter 1 William and the werewolf: the problem of William of Palerne; The question of evidence; Sheepskins, bearskins, and the topos of regret; Revelation and Atonement; Conclusion: prominent patrons and poetic models; Chapter 2 Localizing Piers Plowman C: Meed, Corfe castle, and the London Riot of 1384; In London and upon London; Many sundry sorrows: C 3.87-114 and the riot of February 1384
Description / Table of Contents:
In the castle of CorfeConclusion: toward a textual historicism; Chapter 3 Latinitas et communitas Visionis Willielmi de Langlond; Ashmole 1468, Pseudo-Gluttony, and the quick brown fox; The fullness of time: from the margins into the text; Unidentified scraps; Excerpting Piers Plowman, c.1450-1600; Chapter 4 ""Quod piers plowman"":non-reformist prophecy, c.1520-1555; Piers Plowman in Winchester: two monks heads and political prophecy; John Brynstan, heretic and apostate; Davy the Dyker and the abbot of Abingdon; Robert Crowley and the face of a prophecy
Description / Table of Contents:
Catholic Piers Plowman in the sixteenth centuryChapter 5 Urry, Burrell, and the pains of John Taylor: the Spelman MS, 1709-1766; Lord Weymouth, John Urry, and the Spelman auction of 1709; The pains of John Taylor; The mysterious afterlives of the Taylor/Burrell volumes; Manuscript of my own; The missing Spelman Piers Plowman; Conclusion: the eighteenth-century archive, and ours; Chapter 6 William Dupré, fabricateur: Piers Plowman in the age of forgery, c.1794-1802; Edmond Malone and the authentic Shakespeare portrait; William Dupré and the Shakespeare forgeries
Description / Table of Contents:
Love and Madness and Middle EnglishWilliam Duprés Piers Plowman; Aftermath: Margaret de Valois and the pilgrim of Douce 104; Appendix: William Dupré'smodernization of Piers Plowman; Conclusion: Leland'smadness and the tale of Piers Plowman; Stephan Batman (?) and the ploughman problem; Elizabeth Johnson and her Chaucerian copy of Piers Plowman; Humfrey Wanley and the birth of ""WilliamLangland""; Joseph Ritson, impersonator of Chaucer?; The early print archive; Notes; Introduction; 1 William and the werewolf; 2 Localizing Piers Plowman C; 3 Latinitas et communitas; 4 ""Quod piersplowman""
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Urry, Burrell, and the pains of John Taylor6 William Dupré, fabricateur; Conclusion; Bibliography; 1. Books and essays published c.1550-1843 (except catalogues, etc.); 2. Primary sources: editions and translations, c.1867-2012; 3 Catalogues, bibliographies, indexes, histories of libraries; (a) Auction catalogues; (b) Library and exhibition catalogues; (c) Bibliographies, author catalogues, atlases, and databases; (d) Dictionaries, indexes, and concordances; (e) Histories of libraries; 4 Biographical works (by subject); 5 Literary, Bibliographical, Historical, and Cultural Works, c.1858-2013
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Index of manuscripts, early printed books, annotated books, and portraits
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