1661 - Wood, Anthony - Note on Robin Hood ballads
| Allusion | |
|---|---|
| Date | c. 1661–67 |
| Author | Wood, Anthony? |
| Title | List of Robin Hood broadside ballads in Anthony Wood's collection |
| Mentions | Robin Hood and Maid Marian; Robin Hood and the Bishop; Robin Hood's Progress to Nottingham; Robin Hood Newly Revived; The Noble Fisherman or Robin Hood's Preferment; Robin Hood and the Beggar; Robin Hood and the Butcher; Robin Hood's chase; Robin Hood and the Shepherd; Renowned Robin Hood (broadside ballads) |
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-02-16. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-07.
Allusion
[Note on the back of a slip pasted on f. 319a of Anthony Wood's MS 'Survey of the Antiquities of the City of Oxford' (1661-66):] Robin Hood and Maid Marian; R. H. and the bishop; R. H.'s progress to Notingham; R. H. newly revived; The noble fisherman or R. H.'s preferment; R. H. and the beggar; R. H. and the butcher; R. H.'s chase; R. H. and the shepherd; Renowned R. H.[1]
Source notes
The note is undated. I have dated it c. 1661–c. 1667 because 1) Wood's Survey of the Antiquities of the City of Oxford was written 1661-66 and 2) another note pasted on to the same folio of the MS is dated: June 11 [16]67. The attribution of this note to wood is uncertain. The editor is "not certain that any part of this slip is in Wood's handwriting".[2]
IRHB comments
All the ballads on the list are found in Wood's collection. Was the note a list of recent acquisitions or the Robin Hood ballads he had at the time? "R. H. and the beggar" is Robin Hood and the Beggar 1; no 17th century copy of Robin Hood and the Beggar 2 is known.[3] "Renowned Robin Hood" is an alternative title for Robin Hood and Queen Katherine.[4] Child does not mention this list. It is of some interest in that it tells us, if my dating is accepted, that the ballads included in the list were in print by the 1660's.
Lists
- Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-11.
- Outside scope of Sussex, Lucy, compil. 'References to Robin Hood up to 1600', in: Knight, Stephen. Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw (Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1994), pp. 262-88.
Sources
- Wood, Anthony; Clark, Andrew, ed. Survey of the Antiquities of the City of Oxford, composed in 1661-6 (Oxford Historical Society, vols. 15, 17, 37) (Oxford, 1889-99), vol. II, p. 111 n. 3.
Background
- Wikipedia: Anthony Wood
- Broadside Ballads Online from the Bodleian Library: Bodleian Wood (scans and bibliographical data of the broadsides)
Also see
- Allusions to ballads
- Noble Fisherman, or, Robin Hood's Preferment
- Robin Hood and the Beggar 1
- Robin Hood and the Bishop
- Robin Hood and the Butcher
- Robin Hood and Maid Marian
- Robin Hood and Queen Katherine
- Robin Hood and the Shepherd
- Robin Hood Newly Revived
- Robin Hood's Chase
- Robin Hood's Progress to Nottingham.
Notes
- ↑ Wood, Anthony; Clark, Andrew, ed. Survey of the Antiquities of the City of Oxford, composed in 1661-6 (Oxford Historical Society, vols. 15, 17, 37) (Oxford, 1889-99), vol. II, p. 111 n. 3.
- ↑ Wood, Anthony; Clark, Andrew, ed. Survey of the Antiquities of the City of Oxford, composed in 1661-6 (Oxford Historical Society, vols. 15, 17, 37) (Oxford, 1889-99), vol. II, p. 111 n. 3.
- ↑ Child, Francis James, ed.; [Kittredge, G. L.], ed.; [Ireland, Catharine Innes], bibl. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Boston and New York; Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, ©1882-98), vol. III, pp. 156, 158.
- ↑ See Gable, John Harris, compil. A Bibliography of Robin Hood (University of Nebraska Studies in Language, Literature and Criticism, vol. 17) (Lincoln, Nebraska, 1939), p. 147.