Robin Hood comes of age

According to historian Barbara Hanawalt, "It is safe to assume that the ballads were recited frequently in villages, towns, and castles of late medieval England," and they were enjoyed across the social spectrum by nobility, gentry, and villagers alike (154). [...]Bennet Brockman has argued that children's literature got a bad reputation with academics because of its association with medieval romances, including Robin Hood stories.) Versions of the Robin Hood ballads produced specifically for children appear in the early 1800's, and in 1840 children's novels about the outlaw are first published in England: Joseph Cundall's Robin Hood and his Merry Foresters and Pierce Egan's Robin Hood and Little John, on which Alexander Dumas based his novels Le Prince des Voleurs and Robin Hood Le Proscrit (Dobson and Taylor 59-60; 317). [...]it seems appropriate for a novelist retelling a Robin Hood tale to use a fantasy setting that draws on the Middle Ages rather than a strictly historical setting. [...]they seem to sacrifice little to achieve freedom; were this a realistic historical novel, the life of hardship they choose would be far more apparent.

Loại tài liệu:

Article - Bài báo

Tác giả:

Barnhouse, Rebecca

Đề mục:

English literature

Nhà xuất bản:

Assembly on Literature for Adolescents -- National Council of Teachers of English

Ngày xuất bản:

Winter 2003

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Định danh tư liệu:

https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v30i2.a.6

Nguồn gốc:

ALAN Review; Youngstown, Volume 30, Issue 2, Winter 2003, Pages 25-29

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ISSN 0882-2840

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Robin Hood comes of age

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