Playing Robin Hood: The Legend as Performance in Five Centuries

Lois Potter; Alexandra F. Johnston; Edwin Davenport; Jeffrey L. Singman; Michael Shapiro; Max Harris; Natalie O. Kononenko; Yoshiko Ueno; Stephen Knight; Katharine M. Morsberger; and Robert E. Morsberger.

ISBN 10: 0874136636 / ISBN 13: 9780874136630

Published by University of Delaware, 1998

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1998 University of Delaware hardcover edition. Some reading wear, inscription to endpaper else good condition.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction - Lois Potter;
Chapter 2: The Robin Hood of the Records - Alexandra F. Johnston;
Chapter 3: The Representation of Robin Hood in Elizabethan Drama: George a Greene and Edward I - Edwin Davenport;
Chapter 4: Munday's Unruly Earl - Jeffrey L. Singman;
Chapter 5: Cross-dressing in Elizabethan Robin Hood Plays - Michael Shapiro;
Chapter 6: Sweet Moll and Malinche: Maid Marian Goes to Mexico - Max Harris;
Chapter 7: Clothes Unmake the Social Bandit: Sten'ka Razin and the Golyt'ba - Natalie O. Kononenko;
Chapter 8: Robin Hood in Japan - Yoshiko Ueno;
Chapter 9: 'Quite Another Man': The Restoration Robin Hood - Stephen Knight;
Chapter 10: The Apotheosis of Maid Marian: Tennyson's The Foresters and the Nineteenth-Century Theater - Lois Potter;
Chapter 11: Robin Hood on Film: Can We Ever Again 'Make Them Like They Used To'? - Katharine M. Morsberger and Robert E. Morsberger.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Playing Robin Hood: The Legend as Performance in Five Centuries
• Publisher: University of Delaware
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0874136636
• ISBN 13: 9780874136630
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Medieval Studies

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Synopsis

These essays explore the Robin Hood legend in performance from three perspectives: its Tudor social and theatrical context, its adaptations and analogues in other cultures and its later history in theatre and film.

About the Author

Lois Potter is the Ned B. Allen Professor of English at the University of Delaware, USA.