BALLADS. THE ROBIN HOOD BALLADS

BALLADS: Special kind of the narrative poem; Are concerned with sharp conflicts and deep human emotions; The first ballads were songs made up by bards and minstrels who travelled from town to town earning their living by singing; Ballads were passed on orally.

Ballads differ from ordinary narrative poems in these ways: they usually involve common, everyday people (although there are ballads about nobles, too); they ordinary deal with physical courage and/or tragic love; they contain little characterization or description, the action moves forward mainly through dialogues; much of the story is told indirectly; traditionally, ballads tell their stories in ballad stanzas.

BALLAD STANZAS - has four lines and the fourth line usually rhymes with the second; - as a rule, the rhythm comes from the repetition of one unaccented sound followed by one accented sound; - the first and the third lines of the ballad stanza usually have four accented sounds; - the second and the fourth lines have three each.

Ballads continued to develop till the 18th century. Historical (based on a historical fact) Romantic (telling of love and noble deeds) Heroic (about the people persecuted by law and their families)

ROBIN HOOD BALLAD

ROBIN HOOD England’s favourite hero, partly legendary, partly historical character; Lived in about the second half of the 12th century, in the times of King Henry II and his son Richard the Lion Heart; A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor", assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his "Merry Men"

The ballads about Robin Hood consist of four-line stanzas, usually in the form of a dialogue between Robin Hood and other characters. Repetition of sounds is quite common in these ballads. Then bold Robin Hood for Nottingham goes, For Nottingham town goes he, There did he meet with a poor beggar-man, He came creeping along the highway. “What news, what news, thou old beggar-man? What news, come tell into me.” “ O, there is weeping and wailing in fair Nottingham For the death of the squires all three”.

List of traditional ballads Ballads are the oldest existing form of the Robin Hood legends, although none of them are recorded at the time of the first allusions to him, and many are much later. They share many common features, often opening with praise of the greenwood and relying heavily on disguise as a plot device, but include a wide variation in tone and plot.

EARLY BALLADS (i.e., surviving in 15th- or early 16th-century copies) A Gest of Robyn Hode Robin Hood and the Monk Robin Hood and the Potter Elizabethan song of Robin Hood

Ballads appearing in 17th-century Percy Folio Robin Hood's Death Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar Robin Hood and the Butcher Robin Hood Rescuing Will Stutly Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield Robin Hood and Queen Katherine

OTHER BALLADS A True Tale of Robin Hood; Robin Hood and the Bishop; Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford; Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow; Robin Hood and the Prince of Aragon; Robin Hood and the Ranger; Robin Hood and the Scotchman; Robin Hood and the Tanner; Robin Hood and the Tinker; Robin Hood and the Valiant Knight; Robin Hood Newly Revived; Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor, and Marriage; Robin Hood's Chase; Robin Hood's Delight; Robin Hood's Golden Prize; Robin Hood's Progress to Nottingham; The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood; The King's Disguise, and Friendship with Robin Hood; The Noble Fisherman

CONNECTING TO EXISTENCE LOCATION The Major Oak in Sherwood Forest Robin Hood Tree aka Sycamore Gap, Hadrian's Wall, UK. This location was used in the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

ВИКОРИСТАНІ ДЖЕРЕЛА: 1. Гордєєва Н.М. Англійська література: Навч. посібник для шкіл з поглибл. вивч. англ. мови.– К.: Равлик. 1998. – 286 с. gremlinmage.ru›medieval/robin.html ru.wikipedia.org›wiki/Робин_Гуд zagadki.dljavseh.ru›…istorii…o_Robin_Gude.html

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