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Tag Archives: Robin Hood
James Goldman’s Robin and Marian, Robin McKinley’s The Outlaws of Sherwood, Richard Kluger’s The Sheriff of Nottingham, Jane Yolen, editor’s Sherwood: A Collection of Original Robin Hood Stories
Take no scorn to wear the horn It was the crest when you were born Your father’s father wore it And your father wore it too Robin Hood and Little John Have both gone to the fair o and we … Continue reading
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Stephen Knight’s Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography
Robin Hood’s a myth, a fiction invented by countless storytellers down the centuries. Sure. Now go ahead explain why, according to the press release that came with this book, he is the only person of a fictitious nature in the … Continue reading
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J.C. Holt’s Robin Hood, and Stephen Knight’s Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw
Take no scorn to wear the horn It was the crest when you were born Your father’s father wore it And your father wore it to Robin Hood and Little John Have both gone to the fair o and we … Continue reading
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Jane Louise Curry’s Robin Hood and his Merry Men, and Robin Hood in the Greenwood
Rebecca Swain wrote this review. These hardcover retellings of the traditional Robin Hood legend are geared for children 9-12. While I feel that children over the age of 10 might find these books too young, I do think they are … Continue reading
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Scott Lynch-Giddings’s A Fancyfull Historie of That Most Notable & Fameous Outlaw Robyn Hood
Jessica Paige wrote this for Folk Tales. A Fancyfull Historie of That Most Notable & Fameous Outlaw Robyn Hood doesn’t wait until you’re done gasping for breath from saying the title to let you know what you’re in store for: … Continue reading
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Theresa Tomlinson’s The Forestwife, and Child of the May
Laurie Thayer wrote this review for Folk Tales, the predecessor of Green Man Review. In the early years of the 1990s, Robin Hood and his Merry Men enjoyed something of a renaissance. For a time, there was a spate of … Continue reading
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Robin of Sherwood series
Robin: ‘ You’re no god. ‘ Herne: ‘ We can all of us be gods. All of us!’ — Herne the Hunter to Robin of Loxley on “Robin Hood and the Sorcerer” episode of Robin of Sherwood If the Robin … Continue reading