Matter of the Greenwood Figure
Will Scarlet / Scathelocke
- Summary
- Present from the earliest ballads under variable names (Scarlok, Scathelocke, Scarlett). Munday splits the name into two separate characters, which is a nice index of how confidently Elizabethan dramatists handled the tradition.
- Kind
- legendary
Worldviews
The Ballad Outlaw, Robert, Earl of Huntington
Provenance
- Source method
- Web research
- Review status
- DRAFT
- Confidence
- MEDIUM