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The Rymes of Robin Hood: An Introduction to the English Outlaw (Sutton History Paperbacks) by R.B. Dobson (1997-09-25) Paperback – Jan. 1 1785

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Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2010

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For most of the last two hundred years, there have been two ways to look at Robin Hood. One is the popular way, found in almost all movies and most popular books, and there is the scholarly way.

This is one of the classics of the scholarly view. For almost a century after F. J. Child published _The English and Scottish Popular Ballads_, scholars avoided re-editing the ballads -- the chief source of the legend of Robin Hood prior to the sixteenth century. Dobson and Taylor went back and published many of these works, along with a selection of later ballads and plays, plus some writings which illuminate the Robin Hood legend. In addition, they supplied an extensive introduction describing the history of the legend.

This is not the "last word." Dobson and Taylor's texts are very conservatively edited, following the "copy text" model even in situations where "eclecticism" is indicated. And there has been much good scholarship since their time. Someone who wants to know all about Robin Hood will want Holt's Robin Hood, and Knight's book on the Forresters Manuscript, and Ohlgren's "Early Poems," and Knight and Ohlgren's equivalent book about Robin and other outlaws, as well as Keen's book on medieval outlaws. But every Robin Hood scholar, and everyone who wants to know about the history of the legend, should have this book.

I emphasize that this is not the popular Robin Hood. The early poems are set in the reigns of one of the Three Edwards (who reigned from 1272 to 1377), NOT Richard I. Many of them are set in Barnsdale in Yorkshire, not Sherwood in Nottinghamshire. Robin does not steal from the rich to give to the poor -- Joseph Ritson invented that idea. If all you want is a retelling of the story someone read to you when you were young, this isn't for you. But if you want to understand the origins of the Robin Hood legend, this is a vital book.

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