Jonson, Benjamin - Sad Shepherd

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-15. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-05-27.

Scholarly editions

• Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 231-36 (excerpts)
• Jonson, Ben; Adams, Robert Martin, ed. Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques (New York and London, ©1979), pp. 275-310.
  • Jonson, Ben; Adams, Robert Martin, ed. Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques (New York and London, ©1979), pp. 275-310.

Studies and criticism

• Greg, Walter W. 'On the Date of the "Sad Shepherd"', The Modern Language Quarterly, vol. 5 (1902), pp. 65-71
• Hayes, Thomas Wilson. The Birth of Popular Culture: Ben Jonson, Maid Marian and Robin Hood (Pittsburgh, PA, 1992)
• Knight, Stephen. "'Meere English Flocks': Ben Jonson's The Sad Shepherd and the Robin Hood tradition", in: Phillips, Helen, ed. Robin Hood: Medieval and Post-Medieval (Dublin, 2005), pp. 129-44
• 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)

Localities figuring in the play

Localities figuring as locales or mentioned in The Sad Shepherd:

• Papplewick (Hucknall)

 Dramas-specific