Research Catalog

Title

Robin Hood and the outlaw/ed literary canon / edited by Lesley Coote and Alexander L. Kaufman.

Publication

• New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
• ©2019

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Coote, Lesley A. (Lesley Ann), 1954-
• Kaufman, Alexander L.

Description

vi, 251 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"This cutting-edge volume demonstrates both the literary quality and the socio-economic importance of works on "the matter of the greenwood" over a long chronological period. These include drama texts, prose literature and novels (among them, children's literature), and poetry. Whilst some of these are anonymous, others are by acknowledged canonical writers such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and John Keats. The editors and the contributors argue that it is vitally important to include Robin Hood texts in the canon of English literary works, because of the high quality of many of these texts, and because of their significance in the development of English literature"--

Series Statement

Outlaws in literature, history, and culture

Uniform Title

Outlaws in literature, history, and culture.

Subjects

• Robin Hood (Legendary character)
• Outlaws in literature
• Literature
• Canon (Literature)
• English literature > History and criticism
• Robin Hood (Legendary character) > In literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: the medieval outlaw/ed canon: literary and ideological thresholds and boundaries / Lesley Coote and Alexander L. Kaufman -- Robin Hood and the margins of romance: insights on canon formation and maintenance / Henry Griffy -- By words and by deeds: the role of performance in shaping the "canon" of Robin Hood / Alice Blackwood -- Robin Hood and the king and commoner tradition: "the best archer of ilkon, / I durst mete hym with a stone" / Mark Truesdale -- Robin Hood's passions: emotion and embodiment in Anthony Munday's The downfall and the death of Robert, Earle of Huntington (c. 1598) / Liz Oakley-Brown -- Canonicity and "Robin Hood": the Morris dance and the meaning of "lighter than Robin Hood" in the prologue to Fletcher and Shakespeare's The two noble kinsmen / Lorraine Kochanske Stock -- Ben Jonson's The sad shepherd, the theme of compassion, and the Robin Hood canon / Robert C. Evans -- "Gone, the song of Gamelyn": John Keats and the medieval Robin Hood / Perry Neil Harrison -- The legend of Janosik and the Polish novel about Robin Hood as continuations of the medieval outlaw tradition / Anna Czarnowus -- What a canon wants: Robin Hood, romance novels, and Carrie Lofty's What a scoundrel wants / Valerie B. Johnson -- Children's literature canon, Robin Hood, children's literature criticism / Ian Wojcik-Andrews -- Doing yeoman work: uses of the Robin Hood tales in the undergraduate survey / Leigh Smith.

Call Number

JFE 19-1275

ISBN

• 9781138336919
• 1138336912

LCCN

2018021451

OCLC

1037896321

Title

Robin Hood and the outlaw/ed literary canon / edited by Lesley Coote and Alexander L. Kaufman.

Publisher

New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Outlaws in literature, history, and culture

Outlaws in literature, history, and culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Coote, Lesley A. (Lesley Ann), 1954- editor.

Kaufman, Alexander L., editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Robin Hood and the outlawed literary canon. New York ; London : Routledge, 2019 9780429442766 (DLC) 2018024510

Research Call Number

JFE 19-1275