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Skeat (1886) who informs us that the work contains several references to the Christian name William: First, the titles and colophons frequently call him Willelmus Secondly, the author repeatedly calls himself Wille and in one passage (B. Langland’s authorship is asserted by Walter W. His bitter attacks on political and ecclesiastical corruption (especially among the friars) quickly struck a chord with his contemporaries – a theme that was to continue through the centuries. In the 16th century Piers Plowman was issued as a printed book and was used for apologetic purposes by the early Protestants.

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Each manuscript is unique, making the textual tradition of Piers Plowman one of the most complex and interesting in medieval English literature. There is also another text known as Z. The poem takes the form of a series of dream visions dealing with the social and spiritual predicament of late 14th-century England. Some scholars think that version C may not be entirely attributable to Langland. Multiple manuscripts of each of these versions survive, although none appear to be in the author’s own hand.

the whole work being sometimes briefly described as Liber de Petro Plowman. Described as a Middle English allegorical narrative poem, the work was written in unrhymed alliterative verse, divided into sections called passus. It is now recognized that there are three existing versions: A, the poem’s short early form, dating from the 1360s B, a major revision and extension of A made in the late 1370s and C, a less ‘literary’ version of B dating from the 1380s (Robin appears in B and C), and apparently intended to focus the work’s doctrinal issues.

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1. c.1377 The lazy priest Sloth is ignorant of his Paternoster, but knows ‘rymes of Robyn Hood,’ the earliest certain mention of England’s greatest outlaw hero, in William Langland’s Piers Plowman. Its full title is - The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman, together with Vita de Do-wel, Do-bet, et Do-best, secundum Wit et Resoun usually given in Latin as Visio Willelmi de Petro Plowman, &c.

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