Robin Hood: Medieval and Post-medieval - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1851829318 ISBN 13: 9781851829316

Publisher: Four Courts Press Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

This collection of essays on the Robin Hood tradition explores both its medieval contexts and the evolution of the legend after the medieval period. They deal with Robin Hood in literature and drama, with local traditions, monuments and forgeries, with folkloric connections, and with the changing perspectives of antiquarian and modern studies of the Robin Hood material. Contents: Helen Phillips, Studying Robin Hood; Douglas Gray, Everybody's Robin Hood; Derek Pearsall, Little John and the ballad of Robin Hood and the Monk; Richard Firth Green, The hermit and the outlaw: new evidence for Robin Hood's death?; Roy Pearcy, The literary Robin Hood: character and function in Fitts 1, 2, and 4 of the Gest of Robin Hood; Thomas H. Ohlgren, Merchant adventure in Robin Hood and the Potter; Timothy S. Jones, Tristan, Malory, and the outlaw-knight; David Hepworth, A grave tale; Liz Oakley-Brown, Framing Robin Hood: temporality and textuality in Anthony Munday's Robin Hood plays; Stephen Knight, Meere English flocks: Ben Jonson's The Sad Shepherd and the Robin Hood tradition; Linda Troost, The noble peasant; Helen Phillips, Robin Hood, the priories of Kirkless and Charlotte Bront���«; Lois Potter, Robin Hood and the fairies: Alfred Noyes' Sherwood; Michael Evans, Robin Hood in the landscape.

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Synopsis

Once again scholars try to corner the elusive forest outlaw, this time coming at him from both history and literary criticism, and deploying a distinctly revisionist strategy. Their topics include Little John and the ballad Robin Hood and the Monk; Tristan, Malory, and the outlaw knight; Ben Jonson's The Sad Shepherd and the Robin Hood tradition; t

Edition details

• Publisher: Four Courts Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1851829318
• ISBN 13: 9781851829316
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 197
• Editor: Phillips Helen