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  2. Robin Hood - Wikipedia

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    This fragment appears to tell the story of Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne. [51] There is also an early playtext appended to a 1560 printed edition of the Gest. This includes a dramatic version of the story of Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar and a version of the first part of the story of Robin Hood and the Potter. (Neither of these ballads is ...

  3. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Robyn Hod and the Shryff off Notyngham - Wikipedia

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    However it has been interpreted as telling essentially the same story as Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne. If correct this would confirm the medieval origin of the Gisbourne story. The play is also important for containing the earliest reference to Friar Tuck,"ffrere Tuke", as a member of Robin Hood's band.

  5. Guy of Gisbourne - Wikipedia

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    Guy is a hired killer seeking Robin Hood. They have a shooting contest, and Robin wins with ease. Robin identifies himself (as "Robin Hood of Barnsdale", in South Yorkshire) to the suspicious Guy, and the two fight. When Robin trips, Guy stabs him, but (after a brief prayer to Mary) Robin kills him with his sword.

  6. Henry Gilbert (author) - Wikipedia

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    Robin Hood and the Men of the Greenwood (1912) The first significant new version on the classic Robin Hood theme, also republished as Robin Hood. [2] [4] King Arthur's knights: the tales retold for boys and girls (Stokes, 1911) [5] The Book of Pirates (T, Y. Crowell & Co.) [6] Pirates: True Tales of Notorious Buccaneers [3]

  7. Bows against the Barons - Wikipedia

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    Dickon, Robin and Little John survive the battle and flee north with other survivors to Yorkshire, undergoing much hardship on their journey. Dickon almost drowns in a bog. Wounded, Robin takes refuge in Kirklees, whose prioress bleeds him to death to claim a reward from the Earl. Alerted by an arrow shot by Robin from his deathbed, the outlaws ...

  8. Cultural depictions of Robin Hood - Wikipedia

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    Stories of Robin Hood Told to the Children H. E. Marshall, 1905. The Tale of Robin Hood and His Merry Men, Elinor Mead Buckingham, 1905. [12] Robin Hood; His Deeds and Adventures as Recounted in the Old English Ballads by Lucy Fitch Perkins, 1906. [13] The Story of Robin Hood and His Merry Men by John Finnemore (1863–1915), 1909.

  9. Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires - Wikipedia

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    Howard Pyle retold this story in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood with the hero as Little John; he used trickery to get the three young men away, and his bow broke, resulting in his own capture. [3] Robin Hood, having just killed Guy of Gisbourne, disguises himself as Guy to carry out the rescue.