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Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on William Langland's Piers Plowman. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides.
The More, The Merrier. Piers Plowman features over 100 characters, many of which only appear for a few lines. Also, some characters go by several names, like Piers Plowman, who is also called Peter and Perkin.
Popular Poetry. Despite its complexity, Piers Plowman was hugely popular in its day. The fact that there are more than fifty surviving manuscripts today, around seven centuries later, attests to that popularity.