Description
Book SynopsisThis work-a parallel-text edition that contains all four versions of Piers Plowman-constitutes a major enterprise of textual scholarship and will provide for students of Langland a modern equivalent to Skeat's standard edition of 1886. This revised and corrected three-volume set is specifically designed to facilitate study of the parallel text (Volume I, second edition) alongside both the textual notes (Volume II, part 1, revised edition) and the commentary/glossary (Volume II, part 2, revised edition), and is intended to make the entire edition available to as many students of Langland as possible.
Table of ContentsVolume I. Text Second Edition Editorial Preface to the First Edition of Volume I Preface to Second Edition Acknowledgements List of Manuscripts Symbols and Abbreviations used in the Apparatus Abbreviations Note on Text and Apparatus Text Appendix to the Text Appendices to Apparatus Volume II, Part 1. Introduction and Textual Notes Editorial Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Foreword A. Introduction I. The Manuscripts of Piers Plowman II. The Editorial Tradition of Piers Plowman III. The Text of the A, B, C and Z Versions IV. Editing the Text V. The Poem in Time B. Textual Notes Volume 2, Part 2. Commentary, Bibliography and Indexical Glossary C. Commentary D. Bibliography E. Indexical Glossary F. Appendices Appendix I: The Language and Metre of Piers Plowman Appendix II: The Rubrics of Piers Plowman Appendix III: Langland's 'Repertory' of Lines and Half-lines
