Uma ufuna ukuba umkhuba ngaphezulu ngaphambi kokungena omunye ukuhweba kwethu tournaments ke ubhalisele akhawunti yethu khulula demo zokuhweba. Awudingi ukuba lifake noma iyiphi imali ukuze ukudayisa ongakhetha bese abanye mkhuba, futhi yindlela enhle futhi iphephile ukufunda ongakhetha kanambambili. ▼ This dissertation examines representations of woodland spaces in Middle English popular romances and related texts, in light of their immediate social and cultural contexts. Far from being abstract imaginative spaces, Middle English literary forests, particularly those in popular narratives, show some notable correspondences to practical interactions with and assumptions about actual woodland spaces, and these correspondences are present in both contemporary compositions and translations of older texts. The first chapter compares two twelfth-century French chivalric romances, Yvain and Perceval, to their fourteenth-century Middle English translations, Ywain and Gawain and Sir Perceval of Galles, and examines the manner in which the differences in woodland representations in the paired poems correspond to general shifts in woodland perception in England over the intervening centuries. The second chapter offers readings of two Middle English Greenwood outlaw narratives, the Tale of Gamelyn and Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough, and William of Cloudesley, and examines the role of the forest in each narrative in the context of fourteenth-century legal concerns. The third chapter discusses two King-and-Poacher narratives, King Edward and the Shepherd and The King and the Hermit, and compares the imagined abundance of game in the forest to growing fourteenth-century concerns about hunting by the commons. A brief concluding chapter discusses hybrid woodland representation in several narratives, and offers some discussion of the conceptual malleability of literary woodland spaces in Middle English literature.