Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales

Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales

Edited by Stephen Knight and Thomas Ohlgren

with contributions by Thomas E. Kelly Russell A. Peck Michael Swanton Paul Whitfield White

Published for TEAMS (The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages) in Association with the University of Rochester

by

Medieval Institute Publications

WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY

Kalamazoo, Michigan — 2000 Contents

Illustrations vii

Preface xiii

General Introduction 1 Select Bibliography 18

The Chroniclers' Robin Hood Introduction 21 From Andrew of Wyntoun's Orygynale Chronicle (c. 1420) 24 From Walter Bower's Continuation of John of Fordun's Scotichronicon (c. 1440) 25 From John Major's Historia Majoris Britanniae (1521) 26 From Richard Grafton's Chronicle at Large (1569) 27 Early Ballads and Tales Robin Hood and the Monk 31 Robin Hood and the Potter 57 A Gest ofRobyn Hode 80 Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne 169 The Tale of Gamelyn 184 Robyn and Gandelyn 227 Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough, and William of Cloudesley 235 Robin Hood Plays Robyn Hod and the Shryff off Notyngham 269 Robin Hood and the Friar and Robin Hood and the Potter 281 Introduction to the Munday Plays 296 The Downfall of Robert, Earle of Huntington, by Anthony Munday 303 From The Death of Robert, Earle of Huntington, by Anthony Munday 402 Robin Hood and His Crew of Souldiers 441

Later Ballads Introduction 453 Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar 458 The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield 469 Robin Hood and Little John 476 Robin Hood and Allin a Dale 486 Robin Hood and Maid Marian 493 Robin Hood and Will Scarlet 499 Robin Hood's Progress to Nottingham 507 Robin Hood Rescues Three Young Men 513 L ittle John Goes a Begging 521 Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valour, and Marriage 527 Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow 541 Robin Hood and the Bishop 549 Robin Hood's Golden Prize 556 Robin Hood and Queen Catherin 563 Robin Hood's Fishing 581 The Death of Robin Hood 592 A True Tale of Robin Hood 602 Robin Hood and the Pedlars 626 Other Outlaw Tales in Prose Translation Hereward the Wake, translated by Michael Swanton 633 From Eustache the Monk, translated by Thomas E. Kelly 668 From Fouke le Fitz~Waryn, translated by Thomas E. Kelly 687