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The Robin Hood tradition has had a continuing appeal from the middle ages to the present day, the hero himself holding a distinctive place within popular culture, his exploits, and those of his companions, being celebrated in multiple forms, from the earliest rituals, plays and ballads to musical theatre, lyric poetry, modern popular fiction, cinema and TV. The essays in this volume provide a rich and coherent perspective on this enigmatic figure and the legends which have grown up around him, offering a wide range of approaches. Topics include place-name study; examinations of surviving manuscripts and their cultural context; appraisals of the links between Robin Hood and medieval archery; other medieval outlaws; mythic figures such as the Green Man; patterns of masculine and feminine identity; and the popularity of Robin Hood on stage and screen, in comic books and videos, and in modern Japan. There are also extended overviews of the hero's origins and status; and the future of Robin Hood studies. Professor THOMAS HAHN teaches in the Department of English at the University of Rochester, New York. Contributors: THOMAS HAHN, FRANK ABBOTT, SARAH BEACH, LAURA BLUNK, KELLY DEVRIES, R.B. DOBSON, MICHAEL EATON, KEVIN J. HARTY, STUART KANE, STEPHEN KNIGHT, DAVID LAMPE, GARY YERSHON

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Author:   Thomas Hahn (Person) ,  Bernard Lumpkin (Contributor) ,  David Lampe (Contributor) ,  Evelyn Perry (Contributor)
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   D.S. Brewer
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9780859915649

ISBN 10:   0859915646
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   24 February 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Theme Park Tales from Nottingham - Frank Abbott Robin Hood and Green Arrow: Outlaw Bowmen in the Modern Urban Landscape - Sarah Beach Red Robin: The Radical Politics of Richard Carpenter's Robin of Sherwood - Laura Blunk Longbow Archery and the Earliest Robin Hood Legends - Kelly DeVries Robin Hood: The Genesis of a Popular Hero - R B Dobson A Voice from the Hood, Or Adventures in the Green Trade: A Convulsion in Seven Fits - Michael R Eaton Robin Hood on Film: Moving Beyond a Swashbuckling Stereotype - Kevin J Harty Horseplay: Robin Hood, Guy of Gisborne, and the Neg(oti)ation of the Bestial - Stuart Kane Which Way to the Forest? Directions in Robin Hood Studies - Stephen Knight The Heirs/Errors of 'Ivanhoe': Robin Hood in Pre- and Post-Modern Fiction - David Lampe The Ties that Bind: Outlaw and Community in the Robin Hood Ballads and the 'Romance of Eustace the Monk' - Bernard Lumpkin And the 'Reel' Maid Marian? - Sherron Lux Playing the Game: Reconstructing 'Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham' - John Marshall The 'Marchaunt' of Sherwood: Mercantile Ideology in 'A Gest of Robyn Hode' - Thomas H Ohlgren Disguising and Revealing the Female Hero's Identity: Cross- dressing in the Ballad of 'Robin Hood and Maid Marian' - Evelyn Perry Forest, Town and Road: The Significance of Places and Names in Some Robin Hood Texts - Helen Phillips Sherwood Forest and the Byronic Robin Hood - Lois Potter In the Sheriff's Court: Robin Hood and American Jurisprudence, Or, Who Is This Robin Hoodand Why Are All Those Lawyers Saying Nasty Things about Him? (with Julian Wasserman)Things about Him? (with Julian Wasserman) - Marcus A J Smith In the Sheriff's Court: Robin Hood and American Jurisprudence, Or, Who Is This Robin Hood and Why Are All Those Lawyers Saying Nasty Things about Him? (with Marcus Smith)Things about Him? (with Marcus Smith) - Julian N Wasserman Lords of the Wildwood: The Wild Man, the Green Man, and Robin Hood - Lorraine K Stock Robin Hood Musicals in Eighteenth-Century London - Linda Troost Murayama's 'Robin Hood': The Most Radical Variant in Japan - Yoshiko Ueno Robin Hood in Cheltenham - Gary Yershon

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Born in Maryland, USA, in 1923, DAVID LAMPE served with the USAF in Europe during the Second World War until being discharged in 1952. After the war he lived in Britain, working as a freelance writer. His first book, The Savage Canary was first published in 1957. Lampe died in 2003 after suffering from a long-term illness.

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