The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 2The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century, the Penn Commentary places the allegorical dream vision of Piers Plowman within the literary, historical, social, and intellectual contexts of late medieval England, and within the long history of critical interpretation of the poem, assessing past scholarship while offering original materials and insights throughout. The authors' line by line, section by section, and passus