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Tag: 18th-century literature

1715…

Poking Fun at Rebels

1 May 20201 May 2020
By Stephen Basdeo In 1715 the newly-united Kingdom of Great Britain had a new monarch: George I of Hanover. He had inherited the throne the year before because Queen Anne’s…
15th Century…

Joseph Ritson’s Discovery of “Robin Hood and the Monk” (1465)

28 Jan 2020
By Stephen Basdeo While researching my book, Discovering Robin Hood: The Life of Joseph Ritson: Gentleman, Scholar, and Revolutionary, I came across some fascinating information. I give below a snippet…
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.…

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