Robin Hood: An Anthology of Scholarship and Criticism

STEPHEN KNIGHT is Professor of English Literature at the University of Wales, Cardiff; he is well-known as an authority on the Robin Hood tradition, and has edited the recently-discovered Robin Hood Forresters Manuscript for Boydell & Brewer.

An important resource for folklorists, literary critics, historians and other researchers... fascinating collection of materials.

• Part 1 Literature: The Robin Hood poems, Douglas Gray; "The Gest of Robin Hood" revisited, J.B. Bessinger Jr; who was Robin Hood?, W.F. Prideaux; rymes of Robyn Hood, David C. Fowler; ballads and bandits - 14th-century outlaws and the Robin Hood poems, Barbara A. Hanawalt; Robin Hood, Christopher Hill; Robin Hood as Summer Lord, David Wiles; the Earl of Huntingdon - the Renaissance plays, M.A. Nelson; Keats's "Robin Hood", John Hamilton Reynolds and the "Old Poets", John Barnard; the good old times - "Maid Marian", Marilyn Butler; the legend since the Middle Ages, R.B. Dobson and J. Taylor. Part 2 History and politics: Robin Hood, Joseph Hunter; the origins of Robin Hood, R.H. Hilton; the origins and audience of the ballads of Robin Hood, J.C. Holt; the birth and setting of the ballads of Robin Hood, J.R. Maddicott; some further evidence concerning the dating of the origins of the legend of Robin Hood, David Crook; "Drunk with the cup of liberty" - Robin Hood the carnavalesque and the rhetoric of violence in early modern England, Peter Stallybrass; aspects of cultural diffusion in medieval England - the early romances, local society and Robin Hood, Peter R. Coss; the "mistery" of Robin Hood - a new social context for the texts, Richard Tardif; an outlaw and some peasants - the possible significance of Robin Hood, Colin Richmond. Part 3 Myth: Robin Hood, Sir Sydney Lee; Robin Hood, Lord Raglan; the games of Robin Hood, John Matthews. Part 4 Film: Robin Hood on the screen, Rudy Behlmer; "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" - fitting the tradition snugly, Stephen Knight.