History of English Literature: Wyclif, Chaucer, earliest drama, renaissance, tr. by W. C. RobinsonG. Belland sons, 1901 - English literature |
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... Robin Hood . Origin of his Rhymes and Legends . Old English Delight in the Woods . Old English Gleemen , Harpers , Scôpas , Singers , Minstrels . The Strophic Form of Verse in Legends . Tale of Gamelyn . Its origin , . 183-189 XV . The ...
... Robin Hood . Origin of his Rhymes and Legends . Old English Delight in the Woods . Old English Gleemen , Harpers , Scôpas , Singers , Minstrels . The Strophic Form of Verse in Legends . Tale of Gamelyn . Its origin , . 183-189 XV . The ...
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... Robin Hood . Play of the Men of Coventry . Pageants . Lord Mayor's Entry into London . Interludes . Interlude De Clerico et Puella . Its Dramatic Nature . Extract , VII . - Morality Plays . Interludes given by English Fathers at Council ...
... Robin Hood . Play of the Men of Coventry . Pageants . Lord Mayor's Entry into London . Interludes . Interlude De Clerico et Puella . Its Dramatic Nature . Extract , VII . - Morality Plays . Interludes given by English Fathers at Council ...
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... Robin Hood , and Robin Hood is essentially a creation of their unconscious poetical activity . Yeomen and freeholders had doubtless sung of Robin Hood since the thirteenth century . The ideals of a peo- ple yet uncontaminated by courtly ...
... Robin Hood , and Robin Hood is essentially a creation of their unconscious poetical activity . Yeomen and freeholders had doubtless sung of Robin Hood since the thirteenth century . The ideals of a peo- ple yet uncontaminated by courtly ...
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... Robin Hood had grown , and in such a figure the yeomanry created a glorified ideal of their own character ; viz . , the merry sportsman , perfectly happy anywhere under the open sky , without a roof above him , except ... ROBIN HOOD . 185.
... Robin Hood had grown , and in such a figure the yeomanry created a glorified ideal of their own character ; viz . , the merry sportsman , perfectly happy anywhere under the open sky , without a roof above him , except ... ROBIN HOOD . 185.
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... Robin Hood is an outlaw - although the legends did not give themselves the trouble of showing proper motives for such a situation ; he is a poacher , he is even a robber . The essential traits of his character are found in the ideal ...
... Robin Hood is an outlaw - although the legends did not give themselves the trouble of showing proper motives for such a situation ; he is a poacher , he is even a robber . The essential traits of his character are found in the ideal ...
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