Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales

Continues the series providing important Middle English texts in affordable editions for teachers and students of the language and literature. The anthology contains all the known material on the outlaw in chronicles, ballads, and popular plays before 1600, full texts and excerpts of five 16th-century plays, a selection of broadside ballads and garlands from later periods, and prose translations of analogous French works. Glosses are in the wide margins, and additional notes are at the end of each piece. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)