Robin Hood
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Robin Hood
49.99 €
Along with the legendary King Arthur, Robin Hood is one of the most popular heroes of English folklore. In the Middle Ages, a large cycle of remarkable works developed around the figure of the noble leader of forest robbers and exile. A complete scientific translation of this cycle is offered to the attention of the domestic reader for the first time. Ballads about Robin were created over six centuries. They sometimes echo chivalric novels, sometimes display the sophistication inherent in the Baroque style, and the simplicity and cheerfulness of the folk poetic text are interspersed with witty and subtly thought-out parody. Ballads have not lost their freshness and relevance to this day. Their eternal themes: the confrontation between blind law and moral position, the dream of a good and fair defender, greed and spiritual blindness of the powerful, the final triumph of virtue. The inhabitants of the Green Forest appear before the reader: Robin Hood and Maid Marion, Little John and Will Stutley, Friar Tuck and Guy of Gisborne, King Edward and the Sheriff of Nottingham - in all their diversity and versatility; "good old England" opens up, according to the famous expression, "which never existed, but seemed to have recently remained somewhere around the bend." The ballads about Robin are the embodiment of the British spirit, freedom and honor, not bound by the chains of law; English freedom, the expanses of green forests and sun-drenched lawns; the eternal "merry month of May", which is so dear to the heart of the freedom-loving inhabitant of foggy Albion. In addition to the ballads, the volume includes play-games dedicated to the celebration of May Day (a merry celebration of spring and annual rebirth, known in England since ancient times), as well as fragments of historical chronicles that allow us to correlate the collective image of Robin with people who actually lived, whose names are found in the house registers of eminent families, in censuses, in unpaid tavern bills for ale and beef, and even in court records. The section "Additions" includes the best of the classical translations of the ballads about Robin known today (N.S. Gumilev, M.I. Tsvetaeva, Vs.A. Rozhdestvensky, S.Ya. Marshak, G.V. Adamovich, G.V. Ivanov), as well as versions of stories about Robin, the plot and denouement of which are sometimes the opposite of those included in the main section of this publication. The collection is filled with masterful illustrations by L. J. Reed, representing not only genre scenes from the life of Robin and his restless companions, but also - a huge rarity - a gallery of all the characters in the cycle individually.
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