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Sto caricando le informazioni... La leggenda di Robin Hood: sulle tracce dell'eroe fuorilegge e delle sue generose imprese (1995)di Graham Phillips, Martin Keatman
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Too complicated. That is the only description I can offer as a summary of the thesis -- or, rather, the very many theses -- in this book. Be it stated that I have studied the origins of the Robin Hood legend at great length, and have my own opinions. So I perhaps have a "conflict of interest" here. But I am also a folklorist, and I know how these things work. There is a core legend, arising perhaps from some minstrel tale, around which details accumulate. In the case of Robin Hood, we don't know what the core was like. But there almost certainly was one. Yet Phillips and Keatman posit that there were three original inspirations for the Robin Hood legend, all real but poorly documented: Robert Hood of Wakefield, Robert Fitz Odo of Loxley, and Fulk FitzWarren. Some of this makes sense. The single most important source for the Robin Hood legend, the "Gest of Robyn Hode" (probably printed at least five times by 1520), unquestionably shares many elements with the legendary story of Fulk. And many references in the "Gest," including a mention of "Edward our comely king," place us in the reign of Edward II (1307-1327), when Robert Hood of Wakefield was alive. But the whole Robert Fitz Odo business is a red herring to explain references to "Loxley." There are no references to Loxley in the early Robin Hood ballads. Even the links to Fulk FitzWarren look like strap-on elements, not source material. Every indication is that tales of an outlaw named Robin Hood were in circulation by the early thirteenth century. By the late fourteenth century, these were probably reaching a somewhat settled form consisting of several ballads. In the fifteenth century, some unknown poet took these materials and collated them together. He or, more likely, some earlier poet had brought in materials from the story of Fulk, and of other legendary characters such as Gamelin and Hereward the Wake and Eustace the Monk. The result was the "Gest." A century after that, a hack writer by the name of Anthony Munday took the materials known to him and rewrote again, taking Robin Hood the yeoman archer and converting him to Robin Hood the displaced nobleman. He also took Robin Hood the bachelor and gave him a wife, and stuck him, most improbably, in the reigns of Richard I and John -- before the longbow was even in use! To understand the Robin Hood legend requires understanding legends in general, and the way they grow and change. Phillips and Keatman make some interesting points, but their thesis just doesn't make folkloric sense. And it's much too complicated. If you want some interesting notes about the evolution of the legend, there is good material here. But the whole is less than the sum of its parts. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
The authors begin by telling the old romantic story that we all know - England in the 12th century, Richard the Lionheart, King John and Robin Hood outlawed in Sherwood Forest. Then they begin their quest for the real Robin, a quest that reveals a totally different story. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Los tres apéndices que completan el volumen son realmente flojos siendo uno de ellos una simple guía turística.
Seguro que los autores no han escrito la última palabra sobre Robin Hood, ejemplo de ello es la película de Ridley Scott del año 2010 donde el realizador juega con la idea del suplantador ofreciendo una arista más a la poliédrica figura del personaje y al desarrollo del mito, pero desde la historiografía han aportado una sólida argumentación que habrá de servir de base a posibles futuras investigaciones. ( )