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Robin Hood is a legendary heroic outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature, theatre, and cinema. According to legend, he was a highly skilled archer and swordsman. [1]
It helped move the Robin Hood legend out of the realm of penny dreadfuls and into the realm of respected children's books. [3] After Pyle, Robin Hood became an increasingly popular subject for children's books: Louis Rhead's Bold Robin Hood and His Outlaw Band (1912) and Paul Creswick's Robin Hood (1917), illustrated by Pyle's pupil N. C. Wyeth ...
The King Raven Trilogy is a series of historical novels by American writer Stephen R. Lawhead, based on the Robin Hood legend. Lawhead relocates Robin Hood from Sherwood Forest in Nottingham to Wales, and sets the story in the late eleventh century, after the Battle of Hastings and to coincide with the Norman invasion of Wales and the struggles the Cymry (Welsh) people against the Normans, and ...
The books set the tale of Robin Hood in the late 11th century amid the Norman invasion of Wales. ... “It has always been my intention to return the Robin Hood legend to the place and time it may ...
Robin Hood and His Miserable Men by Dick King-Smith, 1997. Robin Hood According to Spike Milligan by Spike Milligan, 1998, parodies the legend of Robin Hood. Robin Hood: The Boy Who Became a Legend by Kathryn Lasky, 1999. The Rowan Hood series by Nancy Springer, 2001–2005. Robin Hood and the Silver Arrow by Tony Bradman and Tony Ross, 2004.
Robin Hood and Maid Marian (poster, c. 1880) Maid Marian is the heroine of the Robin Hood legend in English folklore, often taken to be his lover. She is not mentioned in the early, medieval versions of the legend, but was the subject of at least two plays by 1600. Her history and circumstances are obscure, but she commanded high respect in ...
The Passing of Robin Hood by N. C. Wyeth, 1917. Robin Hood's Death, also known as Robin Hoode his Death, is an Early Modern English ballad of Robin Hood.It dates from at the latest the 17th century, and possibly originating earlier, making it one of the oldest existing tales of Robin Hood.
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