Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
This is the name likewise used by Maude Radford Warren in her 1914 collection Robin Hood and His Merry Men where he also serves as a self-appointed guardian of the peace. [24] Henry Gilbert in Robin Hood (1912) calls him Sim of Wakefield. [25] The Scotchman – A Scot who Robin met while on a journey north. He offered to serve Robin who refused ...
Pages in category "Robin Hood characters" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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 Merry Men, the legendary followers of Robin Hood. Pages in category "Merry Men" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Will in Scarlet was the main character of a book called "Will in Scarlet" by Matthew Cody. In this variation, Will is 13 years old and is a part of a royal family but ends up becoming part of the Merry Men after his father's castle is taken over by a Horse Knight. Robin Hood is named Rob until the near end where he names himself Robin hood.
The first known reference in English verse to Robin Hood is found in The Vision of Piers Plowman, written by William Langland in the second part of the 14th century. Little John appears in the earliest recorded Robin Hood ballads and stories, [1] and in one of the earliest references to Robin Hood by Andrew of Wyntoun in 1420 and by Walter Bower in 1440.
1922: Robin Hood, a silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks. 1938: The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn as Robin Hood, his most acclaimed role, with Olivia de Havilland as Maid Marian, Eugene Pallette as Friar Tuck, Alan Hale, Sr. as Little John, Basil Rathbone as Guy of Gisborne, Claude Rains as Prince John, Patric Knowles as Will Scarlet, Melville Cooper as the Sheriff of ...
Gavin Douglas mentions him alongside Robin in his Palice of Honure (1501). [5]In the 1840 story Robin Hood and Little John by Pierce Egan the Younger (translated into French, divided into two parts and resumed by Alexandre Dumas, published posthumously in 1872) Gilbert and his wife Margaret are Robin's foster parents (his real father according to the Egan/Dumas storyline was the Earl of ...