Playing Robin Hood: The Legend as Performance in Five Centuries
For over five hundred years, people have been assuming the roles of Robin Hood and his companions, both in the context of plays and games and in real life. The immense popularity of the legend has been attributed to popular and elite sources, to subversive and authoritarian impulses, to its reflection of historical conditions, and to its escape from them. Less interested in the causes than the effects of this popularity, the ten essays in this collection explore the ways in which "Robin Hood"...
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For over five hundred years, people have been assuming the roles of Robin Hood and his companions, both in the context of plays and games and in real life. The immense popularity of the legend has been attributed to popular and elite sources, to subversive and authoritarian impulses, to its reflection of historical conditions, and to its escape from them. Less interested in the causes than the effects of this popularity, the ten essays in this collection explore the ways in which "Robin Hood" has been performed over time and in several different cultures, some of which probably never heard his name.
List of Illustrations7Preface9Introduction13Pt. 1The Elizabethan Robin Hood Plays21The Robin Hood of the Records27The Representation of Robin Hood in Elizabethan Drama: George a Greene and Edward I45Munday's Unruly Earl63Cross-dressing in Elizabethan Robin Hood Plays77Pt. 2Cross-Cultural Cross-Dressing91Sweet Moll and Malinche: Maid Marian Goes to Mexico101Clothes Unmake the Social Bandit: Sten'ka Razin and the Golyt'ba111Robin Hood in Japan136Pt. 3Nostalgia and Its Enemies159"Quite Another Man": The Restoration Robin Hood167The Apotheosis of Maid Marian: Tennyson's The Foresters and the Nineteenth-Century Theater182Robin Hood on Film: Can We Ever Again "Make Them Like They Used To"?205List of Contributors232Bibliography235Index248
