{"product_id":"robin-hood-9780801489921","title":"Robin Hood","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eKnight looks at the different manifestations of Robin Hood at different times and places in a mythic biography with a thematic structure. Each of the book's four central chapters identifies a particular model of the hero, mythic or biographic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e For those of us who joined the merry-men (and women) of Sherwood Forest when young, Mr. Knight's 'mythic biography' lets us revisit our earlier selves with an enlarged vision of the romance of liberty and equality that attracted us.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Alexandra Mullen * New York Sun *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eKnight valiantly conveys everything said and done about our hero Robin Hood since the last quarter of the 14th century: every ballad, poem, novel, opera, movie and TV series — his Disneyfication and feminization, spoofs, lampoons, muppet and politically correct versions included.... Such is the power of myth that this catalogue yokes Robin Hood with Jesus Christ, Buddha, Santa Claus, King Arthur, the Knights Templar, Jesse James, the rural Australian outlaw Ned Kelly, Martin Luther King Jr. and the protean tricksters of North American aboriginal lore.... If a 'Hoodie' ye be, thou shalt sally forth to liberate all the copies thou canst.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Chris Scott * Globe and Mail *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eKnight, in a remarkable and witty study of the formation and recreation of a legend, shows that in times of oppression, Robin Hood has always been there for us as resistance to authority. May he ever fight on.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Rob Hardy * Columbus *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobin Hood, the outlaw and eternal 'trickster,' is still evolving, having long ago transcended his national and historical origins.\u003c\/p\u003e * Salon.com *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen Knight's book documents the enormous scope of the myth—revolutionary, reactionary, chivalric, homosexual, patriotic, or whatever the audience will allow, even slapstick. A final mythic trait of Robinalia is its ability to parody itself. Errol Flynn defined the character for film: the animated Robin Fox in the Disney cartoon imitates Flynn, and his was the voice, uncredited, of Rabbit Hood in the 1949 Warner Brothers' cartoon. \u003ci\u003ePrince of Thieves\u003c\/i\u003e was mocked by \u003ci\u003ePrincess of Thieves\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePrince of Frogs\u003c\/i\u003e, and so on. Like any great myth, this is a tale that no one ever hears for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Wendy Doniger * London Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe mythical character of Robin Hood has become an icon through his presence in popular culture for the last 600 years.... Knight is extremely knowledgeable about his subject.\u003c\/p\u003e * Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cb\u003eChapter 1: Bold Robin Hood\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bold and Strange\u003cbr\u003e Glimpses of an Outlaw\u003cbr\u003e Gatherings of Robin Hood\u003cbr\u003e Rhymes of Robin Hood\u003cbr\u003e A Proud Outlaw\u003cbr\u003e Garlands for Robin Hood\u003cb\u003eChapter 2: Robert, Earl of Huntington\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Toward a Lord\u003cbr\u003e Dramatizing Gentrification\u003cbr\u003e The Noble Earl on Stage\u003cbr\u003e A Lady for a Lord\u003cbr\u003e Lord Robert's Origin\u003cbr\u003e Pastoral Lordship\u003cbr\u003e Gentrified Broadsides\u003cbr\u003e A Real Lord Robin\u003cbr\u003e A Gentleman on the Eighteenth-Century Stage\u003cb\u003eChapter 3: Robin Hood, Esquire\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Transmitting an Outlaw\u003cbr\u003e Romantic Yeoman\u003cbr\u003e Lord of the Forest\u003cbr\u003e A Novel Outlaw\u003cbr\u003e Outside the Mainstream\u003cb\u003eChapter 4: Robin Hood of Hollywood\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Outlaw on Screen\u003cbr\u003e A Visual Image\u003cbr\u003e Varying the Pattern\u003cbr\u003e Alternative Screen Robins\u003cbr\u003e Robin Hood in Fiction\u003cbr\u003e A Schoolchild's Hero\u003cbr\u003e The Outlaw in Historical Fiction\u003cbr\u003e Marian Takes Over\u003cbr\u003e History and Myth\u003cbr\u003e Outlaw Identifications\u003cbr\u003e Outlaw Politics\u003cbr\u003e A Forest Spirit\u003cbr\u003e How Many Robin Hoods?\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405176578391,"sku":"9780801489921","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801489921.jpg?v=1730488992","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/robin-hood-9780801489921","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}