Anonymous - Robin Hood and the Friar

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-08. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-07.

This is the first of two plays appended to William Copland's (c. 1560) and Edward White's (c. 1590?) printings of the Gest of Robyn Hode.

Scholarly editions

• Blackstone, Mary A., ed.; Needles, K. Reed, contrib.; Louis, Cameron, introd. Robin Hood and the Friar (PLS Performance Texts, No. 3) (Toronto, © 1981)
• Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 208-14
• Parfitt, George, ed. 'Early Robin Hood Plays: Two Fragments and a Bibliography', Renaissance and Modern Studies, vol. XXII, Special Number: Popular Theatre (1978), pp. 5-12, see pp. 6-9.

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