Matter of the Greenwood Figure
Francis James Child
- Summary
- The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1882-98) numbers thirty-eight Robin Hood ballads (Child 117-154), giving the tradition its standard citation system. Child numbers remain the way scholars refer to these texts.
- Dates
- 1825-1896
- Kind
- scholar
Worldviews
Ritson's Radical, The Ballad Outlaw
Provenance
- Source method
- Web research
- Review status
- DRAFT
- Confidence
- HIGH