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"Robin Hood was ever as popular in England as he is now, judging by the earliest surviving tales from the fifteenth century. Over time he has transformed into the popular hero we know today: the dispossessed earl, outlawed in the woods with his band of merry men, and a skilled archer living by highway robbery and poaching." "A. J. Pollard explores the different set of tales circulating when the legend was first recorded. Their hero is an outlaw indeed,...
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This text details and analyzes the phenomenon of Robin Hood, his resistance to authority and how successive ages have interpreted him. The author suggests that in the late Middle Ages, Robin Hood was seen simply as an opponent of centralized law, whilst the Elizabethans recruited him to oppose a corrupt church. During the Restoration he came to personify treason against an anointed king. To Walter Scott, Robin was a Saxon freedom fighter, but to Keats...
4) Robin Hood
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In this revised and expanded edition, Holt's subsequent research, inspired by the book's first publication, presents evidence of crucial importance in identifying the original Robin Hood, as well as showing how the exploits of other outlaws contributed to the legend and giving an entirely new interpretation of Robin Hood's most famous characteristic that - that he robbed the rich in order to give to the poor.
7) Myth and national identity in nineteenth-century Britain: the legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood
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"In nineteenth-century Britain, the legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood played an important role in construction of contemporary national identity. These two legends provide excellent windows through which to view British culture, because they offer very different perspectives. King Arthur and Robin Hood have traditionally been diametrically opposed in terms of their ideological orientation. The former is a king, a man at the pinnacle of the social...
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