Previous scholarship on the early Robin Hood poems has tended to treat the three major works--Robin Hood and the Monk, Robin Hood and the Potter, and A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode--as a homogeneous group with a common audience and ideology. In this new study, Thomas H. Ohlgren demonstrates that each work must be evaluated according to its own history, production, ownership, transmission, and reception. Employing a variety of archival...