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Tales are changed in which Robin steals all that an ambushed traveler carried, such as the late 18th-century ballad "Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford", so that the victim keeps a third and another third is dedicated to the poor. "The Passing of Robin Hood". Painting by N C Wyeth, a student of Pyle. Published in Robin Hood by Paul Creswick ...
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 ...
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merry Men by John Finnemore (1863–1915), 1909. Bold Robin Hood and His Outlaw Band by Louis Rhead, 1912. Robin Hood by Henry Gilbert, 1912. Robin Hood by Paul Creswick (1866–1947), 1917. Robin Hood and His Merry Men by Sara Hawks Sterling, 1921. Robin Hood and His Merry Men by E. C. Vivian, 1927.
The witch Maudlin having taken the shape of Marian to abuse Robin Hood, and perplex his guests, comes forth with her daughter Douce, reporting in what confusion she had left them; defrauded them of their venison, made them suspicious each of the other; but most of all, Robin Hood so jealous of his Marian, as she hopes no effect of love would ever reconcile them; glorying so far in the extent ...
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.
Robin Hood and the Monk is generally considered one of the artistically best and most literarily well-crafted of the surviving tales of Robin Hood. [1] Holt wrote that it was a "blood and thunder adventure" that was crisply told, although a "shallow" work as well whose only moral is its paean to loyalty at the end. [ 2 ]
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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 ...