Jack Upland

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Jack Upland or Jack up Lande (c. 1389–96?) is a polemical, probably

mendicant orders
and exposing their distance from scriptural truth.

Two extant works respond to Jack's questions: Responsiones ad Questiones LXV (before 1396) and Friar Daw's Reply (Digby 41, c. 1420). The latter text blasts

apostates against true rule, and sodomites. Jack Upland was printed by itself in an octavo edition c. 1536–40 by John Gough (STC 5098). John Foxe's Acts and Monuments (1563, 1570) reprinted Jack Upland and attributed it to Geoffrey Chaucer. Thomas Speght's 1602 edition of Chaucer's Works (STC 5080) included Jack Upland.[1] In 1968 P.L. Heyworth published all three works, Jack Upland, Friar Daw's Reply, and Upland's Rejoinder in an Oxford University Press edition.[2].The three works also appear in the 1972 unpublished doctoral dissertation "The Origins of Subversive Literature in English," by John Roger Holdstock, for the University of California, Davis. [3]

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  2. ^ Heyworth, Peter (1968). Jack Upland, Friar Daw's Reply, and Upland's Rejoinder. Oxford University Press.
  3. ^ Holdstock, John (1972). "The Origins of Subversive Literature in English". U.C. Davis Library. Retrieved 10 March 2020.