18th century… Robert Southey’s “Wedding of Robin Hood and Maid Marian” 8 Jul 20198 Jul 2019 By Stephen Basdeo Dr Mark Truesdale and I are currently transcribing Robert Southey’s ‘Harold; or, The Castle of Morford’ (Bodleian MS Eng. Misc. e. 21), which was originally written in…
17th century… Criminality and Animal Cruelty in 18th-Century England 17 Dec 201717 Dec 2017 I am currently in the final stages of editing a book chapter I have written for Prof. Alexander Kaufman’s and Penny Vlagopoulos’s forthcoming work entitled Food and Feasting in Post-1700…
18th century… The First Robin Hood Novel: Robert Southey’s “Harold, or, The Castle of Morford” (1791) 13 Jun 2017 (This is an updated version of an earlier post I made) Scholars generally point to 1819 as the year that the first Robin Hood novels appeared, these being the anonymous…
17th century… Capt. Charles Johnson’s “General History of the Pyrates” (1724) 24 Sep 2016 In 1724 a book appeared entitled A General and True History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates (1724) which was written by a “Captain” Charles Johnson.…
16th Century… Sir John Falstaff, the Notorious Highwayman 8 Jan 2016 So committed to historical accuracy were Alexander Smith and Charles Johnson that in their respective History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Noted Highwaymen (1714) and Lives and…
18th century… Greatness vs. Goodness in Henry Fielding’s “Jonathan Wild” (1743) 10 Jul 201510 Jul 2015 I have previously written on this blog about London's first mob boss, Jonathan Wild (1682-1725). He was the Thief Taker General of Britain and Ireland. In the days before the…
