Robin Hood: The Forresters Manuscript (British Library Additional MS 71158)

by Hilton Kelliher

The discovery of the Forresters Manuscript in 1993 cast new light on the Robin Hood ballad tradition. Dating from about 1670, it contains twenty-one ballads, with two versions of one, providing texts clearly superior to those available in Child's classic ballad collection: for example, the action of 'Robin Hood and Queen Katherine' and 'The Noble Fisherman', obscure for centuries, is now clear in versions fuller than those apparently cut down to fit...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859914364
• ISBN13: 9780859914369
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"