Robin Hood: An Anthology of Scholarship and Criticism
The legends of Robin Hood are very familiar, but scholarship and criticism dealing with the long and varied tradition of the famous outlaw is as elusive as the identity of Robin himself, and is scattered in a wide range of sources, many difficult of access. This book is the first to bring together major studies of aspects of the tradition. The thirty-one studies take a variety of approaches, from archival exploration in quest of a real Robin Hood, to a political angle seeking the social...
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The first collection of major scholarly studies of aspects of the Robin Hood tradition.
PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionBibliographyThe Robin Hood Poems3The Gest of Robin Hood Revisited39Who was Robin Hood?51Rymes of Robyn Hood59Robin Hood as Summer Lord77The Earl of Huntington: The Renaissance Plays99Keats's 'Robin Hood', John Hamilton Reynolds, and the 'Old Poets'123The Good Old Times: Maid Marian141The Legend Since the Middle Ages155Robin Hood187The Origins of Robin Hood197The Origins and Audience of the Ballads of Robin Hood211The Birth and Setting of the Ballads of Robin Hood233Some Further Evidence Concerning the Dating of the Origins of the Legend of Robin Hood257Ballads and Bandits: Fourteenth-Century Outlaws and the Robin Hood Poems263Robin Hood285'Drunk with the cup of liberty': Robin Hood, the Carnivalesque, and the Rhetoric of Violence in Early Modern England297Aspects of Cultural Diffusion in Medieval England: Robin Hood329The 'Mistery' of Robin Hood: a New Social Context for the Texts345An Outlaw and Some Peasants: the Possible Significance of Robin Hood363Robin Hood379Robin Hood385The Games of Robin Hood393The Paradoxes of Robin Hood411Robin Hood on the Screen429Robin Hood on the Screen: From Legend to Film441Robin Hood: Men in Tights: Fitting the Tradition Snugly461Index469
