Drama studies and criticism

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-06-26. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-05-17.

Significant

• Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 41, 43-45. Good discussion of Robin Hood folk drama (p. 41) and Elizabethan and later drama (pp. 43-45).
• Echols, Katherine. 'Radio Adaptations of Robin Hood's Legend during the Golden Age of Radio', Journal of Radio & Audio Media, vol. 20 (2013), pp. 151-64
• Griffin, Carrie. 'The Play's the Thing: Establishing Boundaries in Anthony Munday's The Downfall of Robert, Earle of Huntington', in: Coote, Lesley, ed.; Johnson, Valerie B., ed. Robin Hood in Outlaw/ed Spaces: Media, Performance, and Other New Directions (Outlaws in Literature, History and Culture) (Abingdon, Oxon; New York, 2017), pp. 57-69
• Krasner, Orly Leah. 'To Steal from the Rich and Give to the Poor: Reginald de Koven's Robin Hood', in: Potter, Lois, ed.; Calhoun, Joshua, ed. Images of Robin Hood: Medieval to Modern (Newark, 2008), pp. 242-55
• Judge, Roy. "'The Old English Morris Dance': Theatrical Morris 1801-1880", Folk Music Journal, vol. 7 (1997), pp. 311-50
• Leach, Robert. '"As You Like It" – a "Robin Hood" Play', English Studies, vol. 82 (2001), pp. 393-400
• Marshall, John. '"goon in-to Bernysdale": The Trail of the Paston Robin Hood Play', Leeds Studies in English, vol. 29 (1998), pp. 185–217
  • Marshall, John. "'goon in-to Bernysdale': the Trail of the Paston Robin Hood Play", in: Marshall, John; Butterworth, Philip, ed. Early English Performance: Medieval Plays and Robin Hood Games (Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies) (Abingdon, Oxon; New York, 2020), pp. 219-47
• Marshall, John. '"Comyth in Robyn Hode": Paying and Playing the Outlaw at Croscombe', Leeds Studies in English, vol. 32 (2001), pp. 345-68
  • Marshall, John. "'Comyth in Robyn Hode': Paying and Playing the Outlaw at Croscombe", in: Marshall, John; Butterworth, Philip, ed. Early English Performance: Medieval Plays and Robin Hood Games (Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies) (Abingdon, Oxon; New York, 2020), pp. 248-70
• Marshall, John. 'Gathering in the Name of the Outlaw: REED and Robin Hood', in: Douglas, Audrey, ed.; MacLean, Sally-Beth, ed.; Somerset, J.A.B., general ed. REED in Review: Essays in Celebration of the First Twenty-Five Years (Studies in Early English Drama, vol. 8) (Toronto; Buffalo; London, 2006), pp. 65-84
  • Marshall, John. 'Gathering in the Name of the Outlaw: REED and Robin Hood', in: Marshall, John; Butterworth, Philip, ed. Early English Performance: Medieval Plays and Robin Hood Games (Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies) (Abingdon, Oxon; New York, 2020), pp. 271-92
• Marshall, John. 'Riding with Robin Hood: English Pageantry and the Making of a Legend'. In: Costembeys, Marios, ed.; Hamer, Andrew, ed.; Heale, Marti. ed. The Making of the Middle Ages: Liverpool Essays (Liverpool, 2007), pp. 93-117
  • Marshall, John. 'Riding with Robin Hood: English Pageantry and the Making of a Legend', in: Marshall, John; Butterworth, Philip, ed. Early English Performance: Medieval Plays and Robin Hood Games (Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies) (Abingdon, Oxon; New York, 2020), pp. 293-315
• Marshall, John. 'Picturing Robin Hood in Early Print and Performance: 1500-1590', in: Potter, Lois, ed.; Calhoun, Joshua, ed. Images of Robin Hood: Medieval to Modern (Newark, 2008), pp. 60-82
  • Marshall, John. 'Picturing Robin Hood in Early Print and Performance: 1500–1590', in: Marshall, John; Butterworth, Philip, ed. Early English Performance: Medieval Plays and Robin Hood Games (Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies) (Abingdon, Oxon; New York, 2020), pp. 316-36
• Marshall, John. 'Revisiting and Revising Robin Hood in Sixteenth-Century London', in: Coote, Lesley, ed.; Johnson, Valerie B., ed. Robin Hood in Outlaw/ed Spaces: Media, Performance, and Other New Directions (Outlaws in Literature, History and Culture) (Abingdon, Oxon; New York, 2017), pp. 111-31
  • Marshall, John. 'Revisiting and Revising Robin Hood in Sixteenth-Century London', in: Marshall, John; Butterworth, Philip, ed. Early English Performance: Medieval Plays and Robin Hood Games (Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies) (Abingdon, Oxon; New York, 2020), pp. 337-57
• Marshall, John. "A ‘Gladnes’ of Robin Hood’s Men: Henry VIII Entertains Queen Katherine", Medieval English Theatre, vol. 40 (2018), pp. 98-121
• Marshall, John; Butterworth, Philip, ed. Early English Performance: Medieval Plays and Robin Hood Games (Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies) (Abingdon, Oxon; New York, 2020)
• Stock, Lorraine Kochanske. 'Recovering Reginald de Koven's and Harry Bache Smith’s "Lost" Operetta Maid Marian', in: Potter, Lois, ed.; Calhoun, Joshua, ed. Images of Robin Hood: Medieval to Modern (Newark, 2008), pp. 256-65
• Thorndike, A.H. 'The Relation of "As You Like It" to Robin Hood Plays', Journal of English and Germanic Philology (1902), pp. 59-69
• Uéno, Yoshiko. 'Robin Hood Plays and Pastoral: Two Huntingdon Plays and The Sad Shepherd', Studies in English Literature: A Journal Devoted to English and American Language and Literature Published by The English Literary Society of Japan, English Number (1979), pp. 19-36.

Useful

• Disher, M Willson. 'The Plots of Pantomime', The Times Literary Supplement (5 Nov. 1938), Christmas Books Section, pp. xi, xii; interesting article on pantomime, briefly discusses Robin Hood as main character or subject of pantomime.

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