Robin Hood: The Early Poems, 1465-1560, Texts, Contexts, and Ideology

by Lister M. Matheson and Thomas H. Ohlgren

Previous scholarship on the early Robin Hood poems has tended to treat the three major works--Robin Hood and the Monk, Robin Hood and the Potter, and A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode--as a homogeneous group with a common audience and ideology. In this new study, Thomas H. Ohlgren demonstrates that each work must be evaluated according to its own history, production, ownership, transmission, and reception. Employing a variety of archival...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611493099
• ISBN13: 9781611493092
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 278 Pages