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Cargando... The Rymes of Robyn Hood: An Introduction to the English Outlaw (1976)por R. B. Dobson, John Taylor
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is an exceptionally thorough collection which includes virtually all the standard Robin Hood ballads, from the fifteenth century "Gest of Robin Hood' down through seventeenth and eighteenth century and the "Garland" ballads, followed by Robin Hood poems by Keats and Noyes . More unusually, it includes early brief plays based on Robin Hood and extracts from Anthony Munday's two late sixteenth century plays which did much to establish Robin Hood as the outlawed earl of Huntingdon, as well as from Ben Jonson's "The Sad Shepherd" a Nottingham Robin Hood play put on to celebration the Restoration in 1661, and extracts from Tennyson's late play "The Foresters. It closes with a selection of other outlaw poems --the Song of Trailbaston, Robin and Gamelyn, Adam Bell, the Danish Marsk Stig and even Jesse James. The editors of this volume chose to reproduce specific surviving texts rather than follow Child and others in combining texts to create an ideal version, so these pieces give a more realistic idea of how the Robin Hood literature was seen in its own time. The collection also has a very sensible scholarly introduction and useful appendixes of ballads, the Sloane MS life of Robin Hood (which the editors regard as valueless for historical information) and Robin Hood proverbs and place names. There is also a map of Robin Hood place names in the Sherwood/Barnesdale region. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Robin Hood, the medieval outlaw who has been represented as both common criminal and rustic hero, continues to fascinate and beguile the modern mind. In recent years historians and literary critics have begun to study the legend of Robin Hood, taking as their starting point the earliest known ballads from the 14th century and beyond. Thirteen of the surviving ballad texts are reproduced in this volume, with accompanying commentary and an additional selection of related poems and play extracts. Together they illustrate the development of the Robin Hood myth from his medieval portrayal as a common criminal to the romantic idealization of pre-industrial merry England in the nostalgia of the 19th century. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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