![]() ![]() However, although Knight endorses Singman’s findings, Knight’s discussion of this intriguing new material is quite brief. ![]() ![]() Using material from the Records of Early English Drama project, which had previously been overlooked by Robin Hood scholars, Singman was able to demonstrate that the “May Games” were likely the dominant medium of transmission for the legend during the sixteenth century. New scholarship in the field has certainly arisen over the intervening decade, perhaps most notably Jeffrey Singman’s startling new survey of the tradition, Robin Hood: The Shaping of the Legend, published in 1998. In fact, despite differences in organization and focus, there is an enormous amount of overlap between the two volumes. ![]() In 1994, he published Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw, which, by its title, would seem to need no sequel. Strangely, this monograph is not Knight’s first comprehensive study of the Robin Hood tradition. ![]()
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