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Pyle's book continued the 19th-century trend of portraying Robin Hood as a heroic outlaw who robs the rich to feed the poor; this portrayal contrasts with the Robin Hood of the ballads, where the protagonist is an out-and-out crook, whose crimes are motivated by personal gain rather than politics or a desire to help others. [1]
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Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator, painter, and author, primarily of books for young people.He was a native of Wilmington, Delaware, and he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy.
The Earl of Mar's daughter saw a lovely bird, and promised it a golden cage if it would come to her. It did, and that night transformed into a prince in her bedroom. His mother had transformed him to that form. They lived together; she bore seven sons, but the prince carried them safe to his mother.
Howard Pyle included this tale in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood but, to make the tale historically consistent, made it about Eleanor of Aquitaine making a bet with Henry II. Others have followed his lead in the substitution. [4]
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood: B224-13 Deborah Kestel 1883 Howard Pyle: The Mutiny on Board HMS Bounty: C224-19 1932 Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall: Originally The Mutiny on the Bounty: A Tale of Two Cities: D224-26 1983 Marian Leighton 1859 Charles Dickens Swiss Family Robinson: B224-11 Eliza Gatewood Warren 1812 Johann David Wyss
The first clear reference to "rhymes of Robin Hood" is from the alliterative poem Piers Plowman, thought to have been composed in the 1370s, followed shortly afterwards by a quotation of a later common proverb, [5] "many men speak of Robin Hood and never shot his bow", [6] in Friar Daw's Reply (c. 1402) [7] and a complaint in Dives and Pauper ...
In other tales, he was known as Midge, the Miller's Son, [4] the name by which he is known in Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar [5] and Robin Hood and Queen Katherine (version 145B). [6] It is also the name used by Howard Pyle for the character in his Merry Adventures of Robin Hood . [ 7 ]