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Playing Robin Hood : the legend as performance in five centuries
- Title
- Playing Robin Hood : the legend as performance in five centuries / edited by Lois Potter.
- Publication
- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, ©1998.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Potter, Lois.
- Description
- 254 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "For over five hundred years, people have been assuming the roles of Robin Hood and his companions, both in the context of plays and games and in real life. The immense popularity of the legend has been attributed to popular and elite sources, to subversive and authoritarian impulses, to its reflection of historical conditions, and to its escape from them. Less interested in the causes than the effects of this popularity, the ten essays in this collection explore the ways in which "Robin Hood" has been performed over time and in several different cultures, some of which probably never heard his name."--Jacket.
- Subjects
- Folk drama, English
- Medievalism
- Robin Hood (Legendary character)
- 1500-1700
- Folk drama, English > History and criticism
- Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 > Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marian
- Comparative literature > English and foreign
- Comparative literature > Foreign and English
- Medievalism > History
- English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism
- English drama > Restoration, 1660-1700 > History and criticism
- Middle Ages in literature
- Outlaws in literature
- Théâtre anglais > 16e siècle > Histoire et critique
- Théâtre anglais > 1660-1700 (Restauration) > Histoire et critique
- Moyen Âge dans la littérature
- Hors-la-loi dans la littérature
- English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan
- English drama > Restoration
- Literature
- Drama
- Englisch
- Rezeption
- Folk drama > History and criticism
- Robin Hood
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- History
- Robin Hood (Legendary character) > In literature
- Robin Hood ca. um 1400
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-247) and index.
- Contents
- The Robin Hood of the records / Alexandra F. Johnston -- The representation of Robin Hood in Elizabethan drama : George a Greene and Edward I / Edwin Davenport -- Munday's unruly earl / Jeffrey L. Singman -- Cross-dressing in Elizabethan Robin Hood plays / Michael Shapiro -- Sweet Moll and Malinche : Maid Marian goes to Mexico / Max Harris -- Clothes unmake the social bandit : Sten'ka Razin and the golyt'ba / Natalie O. Kononenko -- Robin Hood in Japan / Yoshiko Uéno -- "Quite another man" : the restoration Robin Hood / Stephen Knight -- The apotheosis of Maid Marian : Tennyson's The foresters and the nineteenth-century theater / Lois Potter -- Robin Hood on film : can we ever again "Make them like they used to"? / Katharine M. Morsberger and Robert E. Morsberger
- ISBN
- 0874136636
- 9780874136630
- LCCN
- 97043695
- OCLC
- ocm37976460
- 37976460
- SCSB-14510332
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library