Robin Hood and the potter

Titre:	Robin Hood and the potter (éd. Child)
Date:	Fin du XV^e siècle
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:
Forme:	323 vers
Contenu:
Incipit:	In schomer, when the leves spryng, the bloschoms on every bowe, so merey doyt the berdys syng yn wodys merey now…
Explicit:	… Thes partyd Robyn, the screffe, and the potter, ondernethe the grene wod tre; God haffe mersey on Roben Hodys solle, and saffe all god yemanrey!

Manuscrits

Cambridge, University Library, Ee. 4. 35, 14v-19r [⇛ Description]

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

Robin Hood: Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, Now Extant, Relative to that Celebrated English Outlaw: to which are prefixed historical anecdotes of his life [by Joseph Ritson], London, Egerton and Johnson, 1795, 2 t.
Réimpressions:
- Robin Hood: A Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, Now Extant, Relative to that Celebrated English Outlaw: to which are prefixed historical anecdotes of his life [by Joseph Ritson], London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820, xii + lxxiv + 240 p. [GB] [HT] [IA]
- Robin Hood: A Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, Now Extant, Relative to that Celebrated English Outlaw: to which are prefixed historical anecdotes of his life [by Joseph Ritson], London, Stocking, 1823, xii + lxxiv + 240 p. [GB] [HT] [IA]
- Robin Hood: A Collection of the Popular Poems, Songs, and Ballads, Relative to that Celebrated English Outlaw, [by Joseph Ritson], Edinburgh, Clarke, 1826, vii + 106 p. [GB] [IA]
- Robin Hood: A Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, Now Extant Relative to that Celebrated English Outlaw. To which are prefixed historical anecdotes of his life. By Joseph Ritson, Esq. Second edition, London, Pickering, 1832, 2 t. [GB: t. 1, t. 2] [HT] [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
- Robin Hood: Ballads and Songs Relating to that Celebrated Outlaw; with Anecdotes of his Life. From Ritson and others, London, Bell and Daldy et Sampson Low, 1862, xviii + 336 p. [GB] [HT] [IA]
- Robin Hood: Ballads and Songs Relating to that Celebrated Outlaw; with Anecdotes of his Life. From Ritson and others, London, Bell and Daldy et Sampson Low, 1865, xviii + 336 p. [GB] [HT] [IA]
- Robin Hood: A Collection of Poems, Songs, and Ballads Relative to that Celebrated English Outlaw, edited by Joseph Ritson, London et New York, Routledge, 1884, iv + 444 p. [GB] [HT] [IA]
- Robin Hood: A Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, Now Extant, Relative to that Celebrated English Outlaw. To which are prefixed historical anecdotes of his life by Joseph Riston, with eighty wood engravings by Thomas Bewick, printed on China paper, also nine etchings from original paintings by A. H. Tourrier and E. Buckman, London, Nimmo, 1885, xii + cxviii + 400 p. [HT] [IA]
- Robin Hood: A Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, Now Extant, Relative to that Celebrated English Outlaw. To which are prefixed historical anecdotes of his life by Joseph Riston, with eighty wood engravings by Bewick, printed on China paper, also nine etchings from original paintings by A. H. Tourrier and E. Buckman, London, London, Ninno, 1887, 2 t. [GB: t. 1, t. 2] [HT] [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
The Robin Hood Garlands and Ballads, with the Tale of the Lytell Geste: a collection of all the poems, songs, and ballads relating to this celebrated yeoman; to which is prefixed his history and character, deduced from documents hitherto unrevised. Edited by John Mathew Gutch, London, John Russell Smith, 1850, 2 t. (ici t. 2, p. 21-35) [GB: t. 1, t. 2] [HT] [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
Édition antérieure:
- A Lytell Geste of Robin Hode with other ancient and modern ballads and songs relating to this celebrated yeoman to which is prefixed his history and character, grounded upon other documents than those made use of by his former biographer, "Mister Ritson." Edited by John Mathew Gutch, London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847, 2 t. [GB: t. 1, t. 2] [HT] [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
Réimpression:
- Robin Hood. A collection of poems, songs, and ballads. Illustrated. With notes by John Mathew Gutch, F. S. A., and life by John Hicklin, of Nottingham, London, Tegg, 1867, xxxi + 367 p. [GB] [IA]
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, edited by Francis James Child. In five volumes, Boston et New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Cambridge, Riverside Press; London, Stevens, 1882-1898, 10 t. en 5. (ici t. 3, p. 108-114, n^o 121) [IA: t. 1:1, t. 1:2, t. 2:1, t. 2:2, t. 3:1, t. 3:2, t. 4:1, t. 4:2, t. 5:1, t. 5:2]
Éditions antérieures:
- English and Scottish Ballads, edited by Francis James Child, Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1860, 8 t. [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3, t. 4, t. 5, t. 6, t. 7, t. 8, t. 9, t. 10] [umich.edu: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3, t. 4, t. 5, t. 6, t. 7, t. 8]
- The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, edited by Francis James Child, Boston et New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Cambridge, Riverside Press; London, Stevens, 1882-1898, 10 t. [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3, t. 4, t. 5, t. 6, t. 7, t. 8, t. 9, t. 10]
Rymes of Robyn Hood: an introduction to the English outlaw [by] R. B. Dobson and J. Taylor, London, Heinemann, 1976, xii + 330 p. — Revised edition, Thrupp, Sutton, 1997, xxxvi + 330 p.
Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales, edited by Stephen Knight and Thomas Ohlgren, with contributions by Thomas E. Kelly et al., Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications for TEAMS and the University of Rochester (Middle English Texts), 2003, xv + 723 p. [lib.rochester.edu]
Early Rymes of Robyn Hood: an edition of the texts, ca. 1425 to ca. 1600, by Thomas H. Ohlgren and Lister M. Matheson, Tempe, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 428), 2013, xxiii + 310 p.

Traductions modernes

en allemand:
- Robin Hood. Ein Balladenkranz nach altenglischen Volksliedern von Anastasius Grün, Stuttgart, Verlag der J. G. Cottaschen Buchhandlung, 1864, vi + 224 p. (ici p. 76-88) [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]

Études

Gray, Douglas, « The Robin Hood ballads », Poetica, 18, 1984, p. 1-39.
Kendall, Elliot, « Gift and market in Robin Hood and the Potter », Nottingham Medieval Studies, 57, 2013, p. 145-170. DOI: 10.1484/j.nms.1.103669
Knight, Stephen, Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2003, xxi + 247 p. [IA]
Ohlgren, Thomas H., « "Pottys, gret chepe!": marketplace ideology in Robin Hood and the Potter and the manuscript context of Cambridge, University Library MS Ee.4.35 », Robin Hood: The Early Poems, 1465-1560, Newark, University of Delaware Press, 2007, p. 68-96.
Steadman, J. M., Jr., « The dramatization of the Robin Hood ballads », Modern Philology, 17:1, 1919-1920, p. 9-23. [jstor.org] [Gallica] [GB] [HT] [IA]

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