| Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw |  | Author: Stephen Thomas Knight
Publisher: Blackwell Pub
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1788546
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 063119486X
Dewey Decimal Number: 820.9351
EAN: 9780631194866
ASIN: 063119486X
Publication Date: October 1994
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This text details and analyzes the phenomenon of Robin Hood, his resistance to authority and how successive ages have interpreted him. The author suggests that in the late Middle Ages, Robin Hood was seen simply as an opponent of centralized law, whilst the Elizabethans recruited him to oppose a corrupt church. During the Restoration he came to personify treason against an annointed king. To Walter Scott, Robin was a Saxon freedom fighter, but to Keats he was a vision of an imaginatively freer time. The Georgian poets found in their hero a symbolic escape from oppressive modernity, while Hollywood, at its most vigorous - and elitist - made Robin Hood a figure of democracy. Knight's study, based on literary and sociocultural research, provides an analytic account of this figure, the English outlaw hero who has symbolized resistance to authority around the world for over 500 years.
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Excellent overview... February 19, 2005
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This text is foundational to the study of Robin Hood. An overview and analysis of the most important, and sometimes obscure, texts in the tradition, it moves from ballad to play to broadside to musical to novel to film with practiced ease. Professor Knight's comments are insightful and solidly backed. Not a dry book, it is full of energy for the subject and a wry wit. Want to know about Robin Hood? Start with Stephen Knight.
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