Robin Hood In Popular Culture
The Robin Hood tradition has had a continuing appeal from the middle ages to the present day, the hero himself holding a distinctive place within popular culture, his exploits, and those of his companions, being celebrated in multiple forms, from the earliest rituals, plays and ballads to musical theatre, lyric poetry, modern popular fiction, cinema and TV. The essays in this volume provide a rich and coherent perspective on this enigmatic figure and the legends which have grown up around...
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Studies of varied aspects of Robin Hood legends and associated topics: the greenwood, archery, outlawry, and 20c response to the legends.
AcknowledgementsviiPlaying with Transgression: Robin Hood and Popular Culture1Theme Park Tales from Nottingham13Robin Hood and Green Arrow: Outlaw Bowmen in the Modern Urban Landscape21Red Robin: The Radical Politics of Richard Carpenter's Robin of Sherwood29Longbow Archery and the Earliest Robin Hood Legends41Robin Hood: The Genesis of a Popular Hero61A Voice from the Hood, Or Adventures in the Green Trade: A Convulsion in Seven Fits79Robin Hood on Film: Moving Beyond a Swashbuckling Stereotype87Horseplay: Robin Hood, Guy of Gisborne, and the Neg(oti)ation of the Bestial101Which Way to the Forest? Directions in Robin Hood Studies111The Heirs/Errors of Ivanhoe: Robin Hood in Pre- and Post-Modern Fiction129The Ties that Bind: Outlaw and Community in the Robin Hood Ballads and the Romance of Eustace the Monk141And the "Reel" Maid Marian?151Playing the Game: Reconstructing Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham161The "Marchaunt" of Sherwood: Mercantile Ideology in A Gest of Robyn Hode175Disguising and Revealing the Female Hero's Identity: Cross-dressing in the Ballad of Robin Hood and Maid Marian191Forest, Town, and Road: The Significance of Places and Names in Some Robin Hood Texts197Sherwood Forest and the Byronic Robin Hood215In the Sheriff's Court: Robin Hood and American Jurisprudence, Or, Who Is This Robin Hood and Why Are All Those Lawyers Saying Such Nasty Things about Him?225Lords of the Wildwood: The Wild Man, the Green Man, and Robin Hood239Robin Hood Musicals in Eighteenth-Century London251Murayama's Robin Hood: The Most Radical Variant in Japan265Robin Hood in Cheltenham273
