This second edition of the very popular ""Broadview Anthology of British Literature: The Medieval Period"" offers expanded selections from authors such as Chaucer and Langland and also includes material from new authors such as Gower. The second edition of volume one of ""The Broadview Anthology of British Literature"" will include considerably more of Langland's Pier's Plowman than appears in the first edition, and will include for the first time the work of John Gower. Also new to the bound book component of the anthology will be the York Crucifixion Play, and additional work by Chaucer. With this volume as with the others, material continues to be added on an ongoing basis to the website component of the anthology. The website component allows access to even more works than the already generous selection in the bound volume. This title provides works from both canonical and lesser known authors. It is competitively priced. It includes valuable introductory and contextual material.