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Article: Playing Robin Hood: The Legend as Performance in Five Centuries.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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Playing Robin Hood: The Legend as Performance in Five Centuries. Ed. by LOIS POTTER. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1998. 254 pp. 34 [pounds sterling].
This book is a collection of ten essays with introductory material by the editor. The book, she claims, is based on the assumptions that 'Robin Hood is a role rather than a historical character' (p. 13), which she expands on page 165 as 'Robin Hood himself is playing Robin Hood', and that 'variety is indeed the keynote of this book' (p. 18). The essays are distributed among three parts called: 'The Elizabethan Robin Hood Plays' (four essays), 'Cross-Cultural ...