Perhaps broad sympathy for this point of view explains why Piers Plowman was not printed until 1550.

He wrote a long and complicated poem called Piers Plowman.

Piers Plowman has often been read primarily as a political document.

Many more texts are written with similar themes and characters, though not directly borrowing from Piers Plowman, until around the end of the 16th century.

Conversely, Piers Plowman was preceded by and contemporary with a number of similar works in the 14th century.

Piers Plowman had tried to get men to earn their salvation by reforming themselves.

The genuine, fictional, Piers Plowman could take over here.

It is thus used in Piers Plowman and by Chaucer.

This game was played in Piers Plowman, a book from the 14th century.

The poet appears to have produced several versions of Piers Plowman at different times.