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Robin Hood: The Early Poems, 1465-1560: Texts, Contexts, and Ideology
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October 1, 2008
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THOMAS H. OHLGREN, Robin Hood: The Early Poems, 1465-1560: Texts, Contexts, and Ideology, with an Appendix: The Dialects and Language of Selected Robin Hood Poems by Lister M. Matheson. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007. Pp. 278. isbn: 0-87413-96-3. $55.
Two issues have dominated Robin Hood studies for the past half century. Historians have sought the 'real' Robin Hood in archives and in references to people, places, and events in the early poems. Literary critics have tended to dismiss this path through the Greenwood as an impossible quest, choosing instead to interrogate the social and cultural identity of the audiences that read and listened to those early poems. Thomas ...
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