{"product_id":"robin-hood-9780859914369","title":"Robin Hood","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe major discovery of a late 17c manuscript of Robin Hood ballads is a significant event in the study of early English popular culture: fuller and variant ballad texts introduced with full critical apparatus.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe discovery of the Forresters Manuscript in 1993 cast new light on the Robin Hood ballad tradition. Dating from about 1670, it contains twenty-one ballads, with two versions of one, providing texts clearly superior to those available in Child's classic ballad collection: for example, the action of \u003ci\u003eRobin Hood and Queen Katherine\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Noble Fisherman\u003c\/i\u003e, obscure for centuries, is now clear in versions fuller than those apparently cut down tofit the size for broadside publication.Other Forresters texts of high interest are radically variant texts of \u003ci\u003eRobin Hood and Allin a Dale, Robin Hood and the Bishop\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe King's Disguise and Friendship with Robin Hood\u003c\/i\u003e, the last two offering texts some seventy years earlier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition offers a full diplomatic text in original spelling with light modern punctuation, textual introductions, notes on text and meaning, glossary and bibliography. A General Introduction discusses the tendencies of the manuscript asa whole, and a Manuscript Description is provided by HILTON KELLIHER, Keeper of Western Manuscripts at the British Library.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSTEPHEN KNIGHT is Professor of English Literature at the University of Wales at Cardiff.","brand":"Stephen Knight","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280828117243,"sku":"9780859914369","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9780859914369.jpg?v=1772483206","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/robin-hood-9780859914369","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}