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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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]
Richard at the Lee (also referred to as Rychard at the Lea and Sir Richard of Verysdale) is a major character in the early medieval ballads of Robin Hood, especially the lengthy ballad A Gest of Robyn Hode, and has reappeared in Robin Hood tales throughout the centuries. Sir Richard is said to have been a landowner, the lord of Verysdale.
The Oxford Companion to English Literature describes it as the best known of the Robin Hood ballads. [1] But it is also the most often cited, along with Robin Hood and the Monk, for excessive brutality. Guy comes to Barnesdale to capture Robin Hood, but Robin kills and beheads him. Meanwhile, Little John has been captured by the Sheriff, but ...
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.
Beauty and Rose Daughter are both versions of Beauty and the Beast, Spindle's End is the story of Sleeping Beauty, and Deerskin and two of the stories in The Door in the Hedge are based on other folktales. Besides adapting classic fairy tales, McKinley wrote her own rendition of the Robin Hood story in her novel The Outlaws of Sherwood. [5]