Introduction: the medieval outlaw/ed canon: literary and ideological thresholds and boundaries / Lesley Coote and Alexander L. Kaufman -- Robin Hood and the margins of romance: insights on canon formation and maintenance / Henry Griffy -- By words and by deeds: the role of performance in shaping the "canon" of Robin Hood / Alice Blackwood -- Robin Hood and the king and commoner tradition: "the best archer of ilkon, / I durst mete hym with a stone" / Mark Truesdale -- Robin Hood's passions: emotion and embodiment in Anthony Munday's The downfall and the death of Robert, Earle of Huntington (c. 1598) / Liz Oakley-Brown -- Canonicity and "Robin Hood": the Morris dance and the meaning of "lighter than Robin Hood" in the prologue to Fletcher and Shakespeare's The two noble kinsmen / Lorraine Kochanske Stock -- Ben Jonson's The sad shepherd, the theme of compassion, and the Robin Hood canon / Robert C. Evans -- "Gone, the song of Gamelyn": John Keats and the medieval Robin Hood / Perry Neil Harrison -- The legend of Janosik and the Polish novel about Robin Hood as continuations of the medieval outlaw tradition / Anna Czarnowus -- What a canon wants: Robin Hood, romance novels, and Carrie Lofty's What a scoundrel wants / Valerie B. Johnson -- Children's literature canon, Robin Hood, children's literature criticism / Ian Wojcik-Andrews -- Doing yeoman work: uses of the Robin Hood tales in the undergraduate survey / Leigh Smith