Reading Robin Hood: Content, Form and Reception in the Outlaw Myth

by Knight Stephen and Stephen Knight

This book explores and explains stories about the mythic outlaw, who from the Middle Ages to the present day has stood up for the values of natural law and true justice. Analysing the whole sequence of Robin Hood adventures, it begins with the medieval tradition, including early poems and the long-surviving sung ballads, and goes on to look at two variant Robins: the Scottish version, here named Rabbie Hood, and gentrified Robin, the exiled Earl...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719095263
• ISBN13: 9780719095269
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 8.4"