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The major discovery of a late 17c manuscript of Robin Hood ballads
is a significant event in the study of early English popular
culture: fuller and variant ballad texts introduced with full
critical apparatus. The discovery of the Forresters Manuscript in
1993 cast new light on the Robin Hood ballad tradition. Dating from
about 1670, it contains twenty-one ballads, with two versions of
one, providing texts clearly superior to those available in Child's
classic ballad collection: for example, the action of Robin Hood
and Queen Katherine and The Noble Fisherman, obscure for centuries,
is now clear in versions fuller than those apparently cut down
tofit the size for broadside publication.Other Forresters texts of
high interest are radically variant texts of Robin Hood and Allin a
Dale, Robin Hood and the Bishop and The King's Disguise and
Friendship with Robin Hood, the last two offering texts some
seventy years earlier This edition offers a full diplomatic text in
original spelling with light modern punctuation, textual
introductions, notes on text and meaning, glossary and
bibliography. A General Introduction discusses the tendencies of
the manuscript asa whole, and a Manuscript Description is provided
by HILTON KELLIHER, Keeper of Western Manuscripts at the British
Library. STEPHEN KNIGHT is Professor of English Literature at the
University of Wales at Cardiff.
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