Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of York, 2007 under title: Radical pastoral : appropriation and the writing of religious controversy, c.1381-c.1595
Radical pastoral, 1381-1595 argues that the ostensibly revolutionary character of early Protestant literary culture was deeply indebted to medieval satirical writing. Indeed, the author shows that Protestant literature may be viewed as a remarkable crystalisation of the textual movements and polemical personae of a rich, combative tradition of medieval writing which is still at play on the London stage in the age of Marlowe and Shakespeare
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-190) and index
The Ploughman's commonwealth -- Polemical pastoralism : the Reformation and before -- 'The living ghost of Piers Plowman' : the Ploughman in print, 1510-1550 -- The Elizabethan Ploughman : from 'Piers Marprelate', to Pierce Penniless and back to Piers Plowman
