The plays were originally published anonymously the 1601 quartos lack any attribution of authorship on their title pages. Leake's 1601 quartos employ a blackletter or Gothic typeface for the speeches in the plays, with a Roman font used for stage directions and speech prefixes. The 1601 quartos were the only editions in the era of English Renaissance theatre the plays would not be reprinted until the nineteenth century. Publication īoth plays were entered into the Stationers' Register on 1 December 1600, and were printed in separate quartos in the next year by stationer William Leake. Munday has been credited as the first person to identify Robin Hood with the Earl of Huntingdon. Scholars and critics have studied the plays for their place in the evolution of the Robin Hood legend. They are among the relatively few surviving examples of the popular drama acted by the Admiral's Men during the Shakespearean era. The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntingdon and The Death of Robert Earl of Huntingdon are two closely related Elizabethan-era stage plays on the Robin Hood legend, that were written by Anthony Munday (possibly with help from Henry Chettle) in 1598 and published in 1601.
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