The Gest Of Robin Hood
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Author | : Robert B. Waltz |
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Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2012-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781935243946 |
The English ballad "The Gest of Robyn Hood" is the single most important source for the Robin Hood legend. This study uses the latest resources and techniques to reconstruct the text and interpret its occasionally obscure language; looks at its place among the ballads and metrical romances of the period; and explores the historical context of the Robin Hood of legend.
Author | : William Hall Clawson |
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Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Ballads, English |
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Author | : Robert B. Waltz |
Publisher | : Robert B. Waltz |
Total Pages | : 617 |
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The “Gest” is the earliest major writing about Robin Hood — although it tells a tale very different from that found in most modern retellings. This version attempts to produce a more accurate text of the long-lost original; it also provides a modernized parallel. To this is added an extensive historical introduction, line-by-line commentary, vocabulary study, and a selection of other texts which clarify the context of the "Gest." Dedicated to Patricia Rosenberg.
Author | : William Hall Clawson |
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Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Ballads, English |
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Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Robin Hood (Legendary character) |
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Twelve selected adventures of Robin Hood and his outlaw band who stole from the rich to give to the poor.
Author | : Francis James Child |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 690 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Ballads, English |
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Author | : Thomas E. Kelly |
Publisher | : Medieval Institute Publications |
Total Pages | : 746 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Drama |
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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.
Author | : William Clawson |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2015-05-05 |
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ISBN | : 9781512061413 |
From the INTRODUCTORY. Among those Robin Hood ballads which are derived from genuine popular tradition, the Gest of Robin Hood undoubtedly holds first place in interest and importance. It not only gives the fullest and most comprehensive account of the habits and character of that famous outlaw, but also relates a greater number of his adventures than any other ballad. It is one of the best examples in medieval literature of skillfully arranged and effectively phrased narrative. Finally, it is the only example in English, and perhaps in European literature, of a poem which, while employing the material, the metre, and to some extent the style of the single ballad, shows in its length (456 ballad stanzas), in its combination of originally separate ballads of the hero, and in its obvious aim to give a complete picture of that hero's character and career, a decided approach to the method and style of the epic. The Gest of Robin Hood is, therefore, of great significance, not only as a masterly narrative of a popular mediaeval hero, but also as a contribution to the problem of epic origins and of the relations between ballad and epic....
Author | : Joseph Ritson |
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Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1832 |
Genre | : Ballads, English |
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Author | : William Hall Clawson |
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Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2020-02-27 |
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From the INTRODUCTORY. Among those Robin Hood ballads which are derived from genuine popular tradition, the Gest of Robin Hood undoubtedly holds first place in interest and importance. It not only gives the fullest and most comprehensive account of the habits and character of that famous outlaw, but also relates a greater number of his adventures than any other ballad. It is one of the best examples in medieval literature of skillfully arranged and effectively phrased narrative. Finally, it is the only example in English, and perhaps in European literature, of a poem which, while employing the material, the metre, and to some extent the style of the single ballad, shows in its length (456 ballad stanzas), in its combination of originally separate ballads of the hero, and in its obvious aim to give a complete picture of that hero's character and career, a decided approach to the method and style of the epic. The Gest of Robin Hood is, therefore, of great significance, not only as a masterly narrative of a popular mediaeval hero, but also as a contribution to the problem of epic origins and of the relations between ballad and epic....