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Robin Hood and Allan-a-Dale; Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne; Robin Hood and Little John; Robin Hood and Maid Marian; Robin Hood and Queen Katherine; Robin Hood and the Beggar; Robin Hood and the Bishop; Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford; Robin Hood and the Butcher; Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar; Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow; Robin Hood ...
[further explanation needed] The only character to use a quarterstaff in the early ballads is the potter, and Robin Hood does not take to a staff until the 17th-century Robin Hood and Little John. [37] The political and social assumptions underlying the early Robin Hood ballads have long been controversial. J. C.
Willie, in service of Earl Richard, impregnates the earl's daughter. Fearing Richard's wrath, the couple escapes to the woods, where their son is born. They name him Robin Hood (though the ballad is not considered part of the Robin Hood cycle). In a variant, the mother dies, and the earl makes the boy his heir. 103: Rose the Red and White Lily
Tuck developed separately from the Robin Hood tradition; similar characters appear in 15th- and 16th-century plays, and an early 15th-century outlaw used the alias Friar Tuck. [7] A fighting friar appears in the ballad "Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar", though he is not named. Robin and the friar engage in a battle of wits, which at one point ...
A Gest of Robyn Hode (also known as A Lyttell Geste of Robyn Hode) is one of the earliest surviving texts of the Robin Hood tales. Written in late Middle English poetic verse, it is an early example of an English language ballad, in which the verses are grouped in quatrains with an ABCB rhyme scheme, also known as ballad stanzas.
Stories of Robin Hood Told to the Children H. E. Marshall, 1905. Robin Hood; His Deeds and Adventures as Recounted in the Old English Ballads by Lucy Fitch Perkins, 1906. 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 and Little John, by Louis Rhead, 1912. Robin Hood and Little John is Child ballad 125. It is a story in the Robin Hood canon which has survived as, among other forms, a late seventeenth-century English broadside ballad, and is one of several ballads about the medieval folk hero that form part of the Child ballad collection, which is one of the most comprehensive collections of ...
Robin Hood and the Monk is a Middle English ballad and one of the oldest surviving ballads of Robin Hood. The earliest surviving document with the work is from around 1450, and it may have been composed even earlier in the 15th century. It is also one of the longest ballads at around 2,700 words.