Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales [Paperback]

Although nearly everyone has heard the name of Robin Hood, few have actually read any medieval tales about the legendary outlaw. Stephen Knight and Thomas Ohlgren set out to correct this discrepancy in their comprehensive collection of all pre-seventeenth-century Robin Hood tales. The editors include such other outlaw figures as Hereward the Wake, Eustache the Monk, and Fouke le Fitz Waryn to further contextualize the tradition of English outlaw tales. In this text the figure of Robin Hood can be viewed in historical perspective, from the early accounts in the chronicles through the ballads, plays, and romances that grew around his fame and impressed him on our fictional and historical imaginations. This edition is particularly useful for classrooms, with its extensive introductions, notes, and glosses, enabling students of any level to approach the texts in their original Middle English.Illustrations General Introduction The Chronicler's Robin Hood Introduction From Andrew of Wyntoun's Orygynale Chronicle(c. 1420) From Walter Bower's Continuationof John of Fordun's Scotichronicon (c. 1440) From John Major's Historia Majoris Britanniae(1521) From Richard Grafton's Chronicle at Large(1569) Early Ballads and Tales Robin Hood and the MonkRobin Hood and the PotterA Gest of Robin HoodRobin Hood and Guy of GisborneThe Tale of GamelynRobyn and GandelynAdam Bell, Clim of the Clough, and William of CloudesleyRobin Hood Plays Robyn Hod and the Shryff off NotynghamRobin Hood and the Friar and Robin Hood and the PotterIntroduction to the Munday Plays The Downfall of Robert, Earle of Huntington, by Anthony Munday From The Death of Robert, Earle of Huntington, by Anthony Munday Robin Hood and His Crew of SouldiersLater Ballads Introduction Robin HoodlsH