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Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales

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Author
Anthony Munday
Author
Stephen Knight
Editor
Russell A. Peck
Editor
Thomas H. Ohlgren
Editor
Thomas E. Kelly
Translator
Michael Swanton
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This comprehensive collection testifies to the enduring popularity of outlaw tales in medieval and early modern England, the legend of Robin Hood foremost among them. As figures of mischief, guile, anticlerical sentiment, and resistance to unjust authority, Robin Hood, Maid Marian, and “merry men” such as Little John, Friar Tuck, and Will Scarlet featured in numerous popular medieval and early modern ballads, plays, and carnivals, even garnering mentions in chronicles and legal records. This collection charts the evolution of this endlessly generative figure and his legend as both were adapted to various historical contexts and narrative mediums from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries. For greater literary context, it also provides historical parallels of the character in medieval English outlaw traditions, such as the eleventh-century Anglo-Saxon nobleman Hereward the Wake, the twelfth-century French nobleman Eustache the Monk, and the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman ancestral romance hero Fouke le Fitz Waryn.

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Cover design by Elizabeth King. First edition published in 1997; Second edition published in 2000.
contents
  1. General Introduction
  3. The Chronicler's Robin Hood
    1. Introduction to The Chronicler's Robin Hood
    2. From Andrew of Wyntoun's Orygynale Chronicle (c. 1420)
    3. From Walter Bower's Continuation of John Fordun's Scotichronicon (c. 1440)
    4. From John Major's Historia Majoris Brittaniae (1521)
    5. From Richard Grafton's Chronicle at Large (1569)
  5. Early Ballads and Tales
    1. Introduction to Robin Hood and the Monk
    2. Robin Hood and the Monk
      1. Introduction to Robin Hood and the Potter
      2. Robin Hood and the Potter
        1. Introduction to A Gest of Robyn Hode
        2. A Gest of Robin Hood
          1. Introduction to Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne
          2. Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne
            1. Introduction to The Tale of Gamelyn
            2. The Tale of Gamelyn
              1. Introduction to Robyn and Gandelyn
              2. Robyn and Gandelyn
                1. Introduction to Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough, and William of Cloudesley
                2. Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough, and William of Cloudesley
                4. Robin Hood Plays
                  1. Introduction to Robyn Hod and the Shryff off Notyngham
                  2. Robyn Hod and the Shryff of Notyngham
                    1. Introduction to Robin Hood and the Friar and Robin Hood and the Potter
                    2. Robin Hood and the Friar and Robin Hood and the Potter
                      1. Introduction to the Munday Plays
                      2. The Downfall of Robert, Earle of Huntington
                        1. Excerpts from The Death of Robert, Earle of Huntington
                          1. Introduction to Robin Hood and His Crew of Souldiers
                          2. Robin Hood and His Crew of Souldiers
                          4. Later Ballads
                            1. Introduction to Later Ballads
                            2. Introduction to Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar
                            3. Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar
                              1. Introduction to The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield
                              2. The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield
                                1. Introduction to Robin Hood and Little John
                                2. Robin Hood and Little John
                                  1. Introduction to Robin Hood and Allin a Dale
                                  2. Robin Hood and Allin a Dale
                                    1. Introduction to Robin Hood and Maid Marian
                                    2. Robin Hood and Maid Marian
                                      1. Introduction to Robin Hood and Will Scarlet
                                      2. Robin Hood and Will Scarlet
                                        1. Introduction to Robin Hood's Progress to Nottingham
                                        2. Robin Hood's Progress to Nottingham
                                          1. Introduction to Robin Hood Rescues Three Young Men
                                          2. Robin Hood Rescues Three Young Men
                                            1. Introduction to Little John A Begging
                                            2. Little John a Begging
                                              1. Introduction to Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valour, and Marriage
                                              2. Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valour, and Marriage
                                                1. Introduction to Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow
                                                2. Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow
                                                  1. Introduction to Robin Hood and the Bishop
                                                  2. Robin Hood and the Bishop
                                                    1. Introduction to Robin Hood's Golden Prize
                                                    2. Robin Hood's Golden Prize
                                                      1. Introduction to Robin Hood and Queen Catherin
                                                      2. Robin Hood and Queen Catherin
                                                        1. Introduction to Robin Hood's Fishing
                                                        2. Robin Hood's Fishing
                                                          1. Introduction to The Death of Robin Hood
                                                          2. The Death of Robin Hood
                                                            1. Introduction to A True Tale of Robin Hood
                                                            2. A True Tale of Robin Hood
                                                              1. Introduction to Robin Hood and the Pedlars
                                                              2. Robin Hood and the Pedlars
                                                              4. Other Outlaw Tales in Prose Translations
                                                                1. Introduction to Hereward the Wake
                                                                2. Hereward the Wake
                                                                  1. Introduction to Eustache the Monk
                                                                  2. From Eustache the Monk
                                                                    1. Introduction to Fouke le Fitz Waryn
                                                                    2. From Fouke le Fitz Waryn