Gamelyn
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-15. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-05-17.
Editions
Translations
English
- Knight, Stephen, adapt. 'The Tale of Gamelyn', in: Ohlgren, Thomas H., ed. Medieval Outlaws: Ten Tales in Modern English (Stroud, 1998), pp. 168-86, 310-11. Prose translation.
- Knight, Stephen, adapt. 'The Tale of Gamelyn', in: Ohlgren, Thomas H., ed. A Book of Medieval Outlaws: Ten Tales in Modern English (Stroud, 2000), pp. 168-86, 310-11. Prose translation.
- Knight, Stephen, adapt. 'The Tale of Gamelyn', in: Ohlgren, Thomas H., ed. Medieval Outlaws: Twelve Tales in Modern English Translation. Revised and Expanded Edition (Anderson, SC, 2005), pp. 264-89. Prose translation.
Studies and criticism
- Björkman, Erik. 'Den Namen Orrmin, Gamelyn', Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, vol. CXIX (1907), pp. 33-39
- Bradbury, Nancy Mason. 'Gamelyn', in: Cartlidge, Neil, ed. Heroes and Anti-Heroes in Medieval Romance (Studies in Medieval Romance, vol. [16]) ([Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, New York], 2012), pp. 129-44
- Harlan-Haughey, Sarah; Coote, Lesley A., ser. ed.; Kaufman, Alexander L., ser. ed. The Ecology of the English Outlaw in Medieval Literature: From Fen to Greenwood / Sarah Harlan-Haughey (Outlaws in Literature, History, and Culture, [vol. I]) (London [recte: Abingdon, Oxfordshire] and New York, 2016). See especially ch. 4, "The Menace in the Greenwood: Gamelyn, Gisborne, and Little John" (pp. 143-77) and as per index s.n. Gamelyn.
- Pál, Brodszky; Sándor, Maller. 'Gamelyn', Angol Filológiai Tanulmányok / Hungarian Studies in English, vol. 3 (1938), pp. 15-36
- Pearsall, Derek. 'The Metre of the Tale of Gamelyn', in: Putter, Ad, ed.; Jefferson, Judith A., ed. The Transmission of Medieval Romance: Metres, Manuscripts and Early Prints (Studies in Medieval Romance, vol. [21]) ([Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, New York], 2018), pp. ?-?
- Scattergood, John. 'The Tale of Gamelyn: The Noble Robber as Provincial Hero", in: Meale, Carol M, ed. Readings in Medieval English Romance (Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK; Rochester, NY, USA, 1994), pp. 159-94
- Shippey, T.A. 'The Tale of Gamelyn: Class Warfare and the Embarrassments of Genre', in: Putter, Ad, ed.; Gilbert, Jane, ed. The Spirit of Medieval English Popular Romance (Harlow, 2000), pp. 78-96
- Thaisen, Jacob. 'The Merchant, the Squire, and Gamelyn in the Christ Church Chaucer Manuscript', Notes & Queries, vol. 55 (2008), pp. 265-69.
Brief mention
Baker, Peter S., ed.; Howe, Nicholas, ed. Words and Works: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Fred C. Robinson (Toronto Old English Studies) (Toronto, 1998); includes discussion of Gamelyn.