Munday, Anthony - Downfall of Robert Earle of Huntington

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-15. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-02-10.

Scholarly editions

• Munday, Anthony; [Chettle, Henry]; Collier, John Payne, ed. The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntington (London, 1828).
• Collier, John Payne, ed. Five Old Plays, Forming a Supplement to the Collections of Dodsley and Others (London, 1833); (separate pagination). Same ed. as preceding.
• Dodsley, Robert, ed.; Hazlitt, W.C., ed. A Select Collection of Old English Plays (London, 1874), vol. VIII, pp. 93-207.

Studies and criticism

• Margeson, J. M. R. 'Dramatic Form: The Huntington Plays', Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, vol. 14 (1974), pp. 223-38
• Oakley-Brown, Liz. 'Framing Robin Hood: temporality and textuality in Anthony Munday's Huntington plays', in: Phillips, Helen, ed. Robin Hood: Medieval and Post-Medieval (Dublin, 2005), pp. 113-128
• Skura, Meredith. 'Anthony Munday's "Gentrification" of Robin Hood', English Literary Renaissance, vol. 33 (2003), pp. 155-80
• 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.

Brief mention

• Freeburg, Victor Oscar. Disguise Plots in Elizabethan Drama: a Study in Stage Tradition (Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature) (New York, 1915), pp. 25, 105, 151 n., 223
• 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
• Merriam, Thomas. 'Six-Word Collocations in Shakespeare and Sir Thomas More', Notes & Queries, vol. 56 (2009), pp. 48-51, see p. 50
• Merriam, Thomas. 'Six-Word Collocations in Shakespeare and Sir Thomas More – Revisited', Notes & Queries, vol. 264 (2019), pp. 415-16, see p. 416
• Oliphant, E.H. C. 'Problems of Authorship in Elizabethan Dramatic Lierature', Modern Philology, vol. VIII (1911), pp. 411-59; see p. 454: attributes the Huntingdon plays to Munday and Chettle
• Parrott, T.M. 'The Authorship of Two Italian Gentlemen', Modern Philology, vol. XIII (1915), pp. 241-51; see pp. 250, 251. On rhyme-schemes, comic "malapropisms" etc. as evidence of authorship in Downfall and Death
• Reynolds, George F. 'Some Principles of Elizabethan Staging. Part I.', Modern Philology, vol. II (1905), pp. 581-614; see p. 597.

Biography

• Hotson, Leslie. 'Anthony Mundy's Birth-Date', Notes & Queries, vol. 6 (1959), pp. 1-4.

Also see

• Munday, Anthony - Death of Robert Earle of Huntington
• Munday, Anthony - Metropolis Coronata
• 1515 - Skelton, John - Magnificence
• 1509 - Barclay, Alexander - Ship of Fools (3).

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