Piers Plowman

by William Langland

Overview

Written by a fourteenth-century cleric, this spiritual allegory explores man in relation to his ultimate destiny against the background of teeming, colorful medieval life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789635249275
Publisher:	Booklassic
Publication date:	06/22/2015
Series:	Piers Plowman
Sold by:	PUBLISHDRIVE KFT
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	992,509
File size:	572 KB

About the Author

Elizabeth Robertson is Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author of Early English Devotional Prose and The Female Audience and Chaucerian Consent. She is co-author of Chaucer’s Religious Tales and Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature.

Stephen H. A. Shepherd is Associate Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University. His honors include fellowships to the Huntington Library and the Bibliographical Society of America. He is the editor of the Middle-English Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle and of the Norton Critical Edition of Middle English Romances and coeditor of theNorton Critical Edition of Piers Plowman.

Editorial Reviews

This medieval English poem, a mixture of satire, polemic, and piety, loses its alliterative verse and much of its verbal interest in this modern translation, becoming a rather bald, if impassioned, allegory cum theological discourse. But in place of the poetry, narrator Jonathan Keeble supplies energetic, even passionate, voice acting and a wide variety of skillfully rendered British regional and class accents, mostly well chosen to match the characters. However, his choice for Piers—who morphs from Everyman to a stand-in for Christ—sounds a bit rough for the role. Keeble supplies appropriate emotional expression and helps make clearer, by his emphasis and shaping of phrases, the poem’s sometimes obscure sense. Interested listeners will find a skilled, engaged, and well-acted performance. W.M. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine

MARCH 2022 - AudioFile

This medieval English poem, a mixture of satire, polemic, and piety, loses its alliterative verse and much of its verbal interest in this modern translation, becoming a rather bald, if impassioned, allegory cum theological discourse. But in place of the poetry, narrator Jonathan Keeble supplies energetic, even passionate, voice acting and a wide variety of skillfully rendered British regional and class accents, mostly well chosen to match the characters. However, his choice for Piers—who morphs from Everyman to a stand-in for Christ—sounds a bit rough for the role. Keeble supplies appropriate emotional expression and helps make clearer, by his emphasis and shaping of phrases, the poem’s sometimes obscure sense. Interested listeners will find a skilled, engaged, and well-acted performance. W.M. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine

MARCH 2022 - AudioFile