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The Robin Hood tradition is a rich assembly of exciting stories, more than five hundred years old and still thriving. From medieval ballads of yeoman resistance and gentrified Renaissance stories of Lord Robin versus bad King John, the tradition survived lustily into modern film, through which Robin Hood, played by major stars like Fairbanks, Flynn, and Costner, has become a truly international hero of natural law. This richly varied tradition enables scholars to study how different periods have understood the concept of Robin's noble resistance to wrongful authority. These new essays uncover innovative topics like Robin's relation with the cult of archery in the late Middle Ages, the purpose of the recently discovered 1670s' Forresters manuscript of outlaw ballads, and what Thomas Love Peacock thought when in 1815 he met in Windsor Forest a man called Little John. Other essays explore the social meanings and contexts of the texts, from the stark early ballads and their contacts with both Catholicism and Protestantism, through to modern excitements like the Kevin Costner film of 1991 and the links between Robin and Batman. Just as the five-hundred-year tradition of the Robin Hood story is alive today, so this collection shows how vital and varied is modern analysis of the myth of the best known and most loved of all the outlaws.

Robin Hood (Legendary character) in literature --- Outlaws in literature --- Other (Philosophy) in literature --- Popular literature --- Literature and society --- Ballads, English --- Robin des bois (Personnage légendaire) dans la littérature --- Hors-la-loi dans la littérature --- Altérité dans la littérature --- Littérature populaire --- Littérature et société --- Ballades anglaises --- History --- History and criticism --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique --- History.

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Detective and mystery stories, English --- Detective and mystery stories, American --- Crime in literature. --- Littérature policière anglaise --- Littérature policière américaine --- History and criticism. --- Dictionnaires --- Littérature policière anglaise --- Littérature policière américaine

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Irish literature --- Welsh poetry --- Littérature irlandaise --- History and criticism --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique

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English literature --- Anarchism in literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- History and criticism --- 20th century