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Piers PlowmanPiers Plowman (1360 - 1399) is the title of a Middle English allegorical narrative, written in unrhymed alliterative verse, one of the early great works of English literature, and one of a very few Middle English poems that can stand beside Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The poem is primarily a vision of the correct Christian life, in terms of the medieval mind. It achieves this end by an examination into the lives of three allegorical characters, Do-Wel, Do-Bet, and Do-Best. The poem begins on the hillside in Malvern, Worcestershire. There are three major versions of the text, known as Text-A, Text-B, and Text-C. The first two are almost certainly works of William Langland. The Text-Z, which is a combined version of the A-Text and the C-Text, is the shortest version. The authenticity of the Z-text is disputed. See also External links
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