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Article: Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography.(Book Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography, by Stephen Knight. Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2003. xxiv, 247 pp. $25.00 US (cloth).
Over the past decade, Professor Knight has spearheaded a resurgence in the literary study of Robin Hood texts, analyzing them more closely than has been done in the historical studies which have accumulated since the 1960s. In 1994, he published Robin Hood." A Complete Study of the English Outlaw, a literary history of the tradition; this was followed three years later by an anthology of fifteenth- to seventeenth-century texts, Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales (co-edited with Thomas Ohlgren); then an edition of a recently ...