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. This book is a new verse translation of Piers from Middle
English which preserves the energy, imagery and intent of the
original, and retains its alliterative style. It derives from a
2012 arts festival presentation performed in the priory where
Langland - a contemporary of Chaucer - was probably educated.
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