The major edition of the three versions of Piers Plowman which the
Athlone Press is in the process of publishing and of which
Professor Kane is the general editor was not planned to include
discussion of the authorship of the poem. The editors were agreed
at the outset in believing that no real case for multiple
authorship had been established in the course of the debate
initiated by J. M. Manley in 1906, and they felt that a majority of
Middle English scholars would support this view. They were
satisfied that the hypothesis of single authorship was the best
hypothesis to account for all aspects of the relation between the
versions of the poem. However, the recent appearance of a book
comparing the A and B versions in the belief that they were not
written by the same man led Professor Kane to make a survey of the
arguments advanced in support of multiple authorship and to examine
again the evidence for single authorship. This re-assessment was
originally undertaken without specific reference to the new edition
of the three versions, but the unexpectedly positive character of
Professor Kane's findings has a bearing on the edition by
materially reducing the hypothetical element in the editorial
position. The results of the inquiry are therefore published as a
supplementary volume to the text edition and in an identical
format.
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