Foreword Introduction, S.S. Hussey 1 Some Aspects of the Process of Revision in Piers Plowman, G.H. Russell 2. The Tearing of the Pardon, Rosemary Woolf 3. Justice, Kingship and the Good Life in the Second Part of Piers Plowman, P.M. Kean 4. Words, Works and Will: Theme and Structure in Piers Plowman, J.A. Burrow 5. Conscience: The Frustration of Allegory, Priscilla Jenkins 6. Piers and the Image of God in Man, Barbara Raw 7. The Role of the Dreamer in Piers Plowman, David Mills 8. Action and Contemplation in Piers Plowman, T.P. Dunning 9. The Langland Country, R.W.V. Elliott 10. Charity in Piers Plowman, W.O. Evans 11. Satire in Piers Plowman, S.T. Knight 12. Chaucer's Contemporary, J.A.W. Bennett Notes Index