Scott, Walter - Ivanhoe

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-06-30. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-06-08.

Robin Hood is an important subsidiary character in Ivanhoe (1820), no doubt the most famous of Scott's "Waverley" novels. Like so many other novels of the era, it is today mostly read by young readers, unfortunately mostly in abbreviated, adapted or modernized versions. Though Scott was not the first writer to make Robin a contemporary of Richard I, Hollywood's portrayal of Robin Hood as a Saxon freedom fighter contemporary with Richard I is inspired by Ivanhoe. Walter Scott's novel is, together with Howard Pyle's Robin Hood (1883), the most influential of all works of prose fiction on Robin Hood. It made the Robin Hood character widely known among 19th century European and North American readers.

Translations

German translations

• Scott, Walter; Immermann, Karl, transl.; [?Ahlefeldt-Laurvig, Elisabeth Davidia Margarethe, transl.]. Ivanhoe: eine Geschichte vom Verfasser des Waverley (Walter Scott) (Hamm, 1826).
  See:
  • Goedeke, Karl; Goetze, Edmund. Grundrisz zur Geschichte der Deutschen Dichtung aus den Quellen, vol. 8 (Dresden, 1905), pp. 612-13.
  • Porterfield, Allen Wilson. 'Ivanhoe translated by Immermann', Modern Language Notes, vol. XXVIII (1913), pp. 214-15.

Comic book versions

Comic book versions in English

• Scott, Walter. Ivanhoe (Classics Illustrated, No. 2) (New York City, 1947)
• Scott, Walter. Ivanhoe (Classics Illustrated, No. 2) (New York City, [1947-1956])
• Scott, Walter. Ivanhoe (Classics Illustrated, No. 2) (New York City, [1947-1956])
• Scott, Walter. Ivanhoe (Classics Illustrated, No. 2) (New York City, [1947-1956])
• Scott, Walter. Ivanhoe (Classics Illustrated, No. 2) (New York City, [1947-1956])
• Scott, Walter. Ivanhoe (Classics Illustrated, No. 2) (New York City, [1947-1956])
• Scott, Walter. Ivanhoe (Classics Illustrated, No. 2) (New York City, [1947-1956])
• Scott, Walter. Ivanhoe (Classics Illustrated, No. 2) (New York City, Jan. 1957)
• Scott, Walter. Ivanhoe (Classics Illustrated, No. 2) (New York City, [1957-1964])
• Scott, Walter. Ivanhoe (Classics Illustrated, No. 2) (New York City, [1957-1964])
• Scott, Walter. Ivanhoe (Classics Illustrated, No. 2) (New York City, [1957-1964])
• Scott, Walter. Ivanhoe (Classics Illustrated, No. 2) (New York City, [1957-1964])
• Scott, Walter. Ivanhoe (Classics Illustrated, No. 2) (New York City, May 1964)
• Scott, Walter. Ivanhoe (Classics Illustrated, No. 2) (New York City, Jan. 1965)
• Scott, Walter. Ivanhoe (Classics Illustrated, No. 2) (New York City, 1966)
• Scott, Walter. Ivanhoe (Classics Illustrated, No. 2) (New York City, 1968)
• Scott, Walter. Ivanhoe (Classics Illustrated, No. 2) (New York City, 1968)
• Scott, Walter. Ivanhoe (Classics Illustrated, No. 2) (New York City, Dec. 1969)
• Scott, Walter. Ivanhoe (Classics Illustrated, No. 2) (New York City, Dec. 1971)
• Scott, Sir Walter; Wright, Robin S., ed., adapt., annot. Ivanhoe (New York, ©1972)

Comic book versions in Danish

Studies and criticism

• Cs. 'Scott dictating "Ivanhoe"', Notes & Queries, Series 2, vol. III (1857), p. 366; tells an anecdote about the reaction of William Laidlaw, who took down part of the text of Ivanhoe from Scott's recitation, to a passage on Rebecca the Jewess.
• Kerlin, Robert T. 'Scott's Ivanhoe and Sydney's Arcadia', Modern Language Notes, vol. XXII (1907), pp. 144-47.
• Nordberg, Nils; Hjorth-Jørgensen, Anders, adapt. 'Ridderen og Jødens Datter', in: Hjorth-Jørgensen, Anders, ed.; Nielsen, Michael G., ed. Illustrerede Klassikere, vol. 10 (Copenhagen, 2008), pp. 66-69.
• Phillips, Helen. 'Scott and the Outlaws', in: Phillips, Helen, ed. Bandit Territories: British Outlaw Traditions (Cardiff, 2008), pp. 119-42.
• Porterfield, Allen Wilson. 'Ivanhoe translated by Immermann', Modern Language Notes, vol. XXVIII (1913), pp. 214-15.
• Shannon, Jr., Edgar F. 'Locksley Hall and Ivanhoe', Notes & Queries, vol. 6 (1959), pp. 216-17.
• Wikipedia: Ivanhoe.

Allusions

Also see

• Places named after Ivanhoe
• Ashby-de-la-Zouch place-name cluster.

Notes

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