Robin Hood

### Allies

King Richard, Maid Marian, Richard at the Lee, Henry of the Lea, Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, Sir Cedric of Rotherwood, Isaac of York, Gurth, Wamba, the Merry Men: Will Scarlet, Will Stutely, Will Scathelock, Little John, Friar Tuck, the bride, Alan a Dale, Arthur a Bland, Much the Miller's Son, George a Greene, Wat O' the Crabstaff, Gilbert with the White Hand, David of Doncaster, Reynold Greenleaf, Maude Lindsay, Winifred Gamwell, Halbert Lindsay, Stephan Gamwell, Firepan the Cook, the Ranger, the Scotchman, The Three Yeomen,

### Antagonists

Sheriff of Nottingham, Sir Guy of Gisbourne, Prince John, the Prioress of Kirklees, the Bishop of Hereford, Abbot of St. Mary's, Simon de Belleme, Maudlin of Papplewick, Sir William Dale, Sir Roger of Doncaster, Abbot of Emmett, Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert, Sir Reginald Front-de-Boeuf, Sir Maurice de Bracy, Baron Waldemar Fitzhurse, Sir Stephen of Trent, Henry Momford, Earl of Kendall, Lord Charnel Bonfield, Sir Nicholas Mannering, Sir Gilbert Armstrong, the Sheriff's Men: Gilbert o' the Red Cap, Ralph of the Scar, Caspar Steinkopf, Riccon Hazel, William-a-Trent, Captain of the Guards

### Skills

Archery, Swordmanship, Leadership, Master of Disguise

### Weapons

English Longbow, Sword, Quarterstaff, Dagger

### Iconic Items

English Longbow of the finest yew, bycocket with a feather

### Other Names and Epithets

Robert, Robin of Loxley, Sir Robert of Huntingdon, Robin Fitzooth Lord of Locksley Hall, Robert of Loxley, Robin of Huntingdon

## Origin

The central figure in the folk-lore Robin Hood is an outlaw and excellent archer known for stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Robin and his group of outlaws known as the Merry Men lived in and operated out of Sherwood Forest.

In the early ballad *A Gest of Robyn Hode* Robin is said to have gained a pardon from King Edward. Later Robin Hood's story was transported to a different period of English history to make the folk hero a supporter of King Richard The Lionheart who was declared an outlaw while the king was away fighting in the Third Crusade. Robin's opponents are the Sheriff of Nottingham, Guy of Gisbourne, the Bishop of Hereford, the King's brother Prince John was added to his stable of repeating villains in the late 16th century. Robin's cousin the Prioress of Kirklees was the foe that put an end to his life.

The earliest surviving clear mention of "the rhymes of Robin Hood" is from the 1370s and paints him as an already established and well known piece of folklore. It is unknown if the ballads or the May Day Fair plays and games featuring Robin came first, though as time went on each clearly referenced stories told in the other medium. The earliest surviving ballad is a fragmented copy of *Robin Hood and the Monk* dating from about 1450.

## Early Life

In Elizabethan times Robin was being written as having been born the son of nobility but in the original stories he was a yeoman who had become an outlaw forester leading his band of Merry Men in Barnsdale, later Sherwood, Forest. According to a handful of tales his first love interest was the shepherdess Clorinda, who is said in some later tales to have been Marian in disguise.

## Criminal Folk Hero

After becoming an outlaw Robin gathered his Merry Men including Little John, Will Scarlet, Will Stutely, Much the Miller's Son, Friar Tuck, Alan a Dale, the bride, George a Greene, Wat O' the Crabstaff, Arthur a Bland, Gilbert with the White Hand, David of Doncaster and sometimes Maid Marian.

### Robin's Gentrification and The Restoration

In the late 1590s Anthony Munday wrote a pair of Robin Hood plays which popularized the concept of Robin Hood as a disgraced or fallen noble in place of his traditional background as an outlawed yeoman. In a contradictory reading Robert Cecil interpreted Robin as a revolutionary when in 1605 he referred to anti-parliament plotters as "the Robin Hoods in your part of the country". . Then, shortly after the restoration, a new much more bland and less subversive Robin appeared in a wide array of new publications in which his respect and resistance of the crown's authority was turned into servile subservience in a notably political slant meant to disabuse those who did not care for the restoration of the notion that the popular hero could be a symbol of their anti-royal ideals. The 1661 play Robin Hood and His Crew of Souldiers for instance presents the outlaw as immediately kowtowing to the King's messenger, and the ballad Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valour, and Marriage contained a generalized bland Robin who was once again the son of nobility.

## Later Life

Once Robin and his band of Merry Men had been pardoned Marian married him just as she had promised to do once he and his men had been pardoned by the King. Robin was killed by either the betrayal of his own prioress cousin sometimes with her lover Sir Roger of Doncaster, by a "faithless friar" as per *A True Tale of Robin Hood*, or according to *Robin Hood and the Valiant Knight* by a monk after being badly wounded by the knight Sir William.

## Possible Historical Figure

Several individuals from history have been theorized to have had a part in inspiring the tales of the folk hero, though the commonality of the names, inconsistency in the spelling of names during the period and the later attribution of the last name or descriptor of Hood to many outlaws makes the pool of potential historical inspirations vast. One of the most popular historical Robin Hood candidates is Robert Hood of Wakefield, a contemporary of King Edward II mentioned in the Wakefield Court Rolls who was first proposed as the possible historical Robin Hood by Joseph Hunter, with his finding added to by later historians J. W. Walker and J. C. Holt.

Robert Hood of Wakefield was the son of a forester who worked for the Earl de Warenne. In 1316 Robert was fined for ignoring a summons to Edward II's forces and he is thought to have been outlawed in 1322 for taking part in Earl Thomas of Lancaster's rebellion and to have fled into Barnsdale Forest after the recorded confiscation of his property. It has been theorized he may also be the same individual identified as "Robyn Hod" who served Edward II shortly thereafter, mirroring *A Gest of Robyn Hode* where King Edward is furious at the outlaws poaching in his woods but then takes Robin into his service for ‘twelve months and three’ after being impressed with his skills. This historical Robyn Hod is also known to have left Edward's service approximately a year after Edward's trip to Nottingham. It was originally thought "Robyn Hod" may have entered Edward's service at Nottingham but it was later proven he had been with the king earlier. The first record of him was instead when the king was much closer to Barnsdale, at Chapel Haddlesey, but within the same year of 1323.

## Appearances in Media

#### **Ballads:**

* A Gest of Robyn Hode
* Robin Hood and the Valiant Knight
* Robin Hood's Progress to Nottingham
* Robin Hood and Little John
* Robin Hood and the Butcher
* Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar
* Robin Hood and Allen a Dale
* Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires/Robin Hood and the Widow's Three Sons
* Robin Hood and the Bishop
* Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford
* Robin Hood and the Newly Revived
* Robin Hood and the Tanner
* Robin Hood and the Tinker
* Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne
* Robin Hood and Maid Marian
* Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow
* Robin Hood and Queen Katherine
* Robin Hood's Chase
* Robin Hood and the Scotchman
* Robin Hood and the Ranger
* The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood
* Robin Hood and the Beggar, I
* Robin Hood and the Beggar, II
* Robin Hood and the Shepherd
* Robin Hood's Delight
* Robin Hood and the Pedlars
* Robin Hood Rescuing Will Stutly
* Little John a Begging
* Robin Hood's Golden Prize
* The Noble Fisherman
* Robin Hood and the Prince of Aragon
* The King's Disguise and Friendship with Robin Hood
* Robin Hood's Death
* Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor and Marriage
* A True Tale of Robin Hood

#### **Stage**:

* 1470s *Robyn Hod and the Shryff of Notyngham* by unknown possibly commissioned by Sir John P
* 1593 *George a Green the Pinner of Wakefield* by Anonymous (possibly Robert Green)
* 1598 *The Downfall of Robert, Earle of Huntington* by Anthony Munday
* 1598 *The Death of Robert, Earle of Huntington* by Anthony Munday
* 1615 "Metropolis coronata, the triumphes of ancient drapery: or, Rich cloathing of England, in a second yeeres performance In honour of the aduancement of Sir Iohn Iolles, Knight, to the high office of Lord Maior of London, and taking his oath for the same authoritie, on Monday, being the 30. day of October. 1615." by Anthony Munday
* 1600 *Look About You by Anonymous*
* 1661 *Robin Hood and His Crew of Souldiers* printed for James Davis
* 1822 *Maid Marian; or, Huntress of Arlingford* by James Robinson Planche (author) & Henry Rowley Bishop (composer) opera
* 1892 *The Foresters: Robin Hood and Maid Marian* by Alfred Lord Tennyson
* 1905 *The Sad Shepherd: or, A Tale of Robin Hood* by Ben Jonson
* 1905 *Continuation of Ben Jonson's Sad Shepherd* by F. G. Waldron
* 1914 *Robin Hood and His Merry Men: A Play in Two Acts* by Elizabeth F. Matheson

#### **Literature**:

* c.1420s *Orygynale Cronykill* of Scotland by Andrew of Wyntoun
* c1440 *Scotichronicon Continuation* by Walter Bower (a continuation of John Fordun's chronicle)
* 1521 *Historia Majoris Brittaniae* by John Major
* 1568-1569 *Chronicle at Large and meere History of the affayres of England; and Kings of the Same* by Richard Grafton
* 1571 *The Chronicle of Ireland. Collected by Meredith Hanmer in the Yeare 1571* by Meredith Hanmer
* 1579 *Palice of Honour* by Gawian Douglas (written by 1518)
* 1588?-1673 *Drunken Barnaby's four journeys to the North of England* by Richard Brathwait (publication date unknown, author's life span used instead)
* 1608 Since Robin Hood Thomas Weelkes (song)
* 1609 In Sherwood Liude Stout Robin Hood by Robert Jones (song)
* 1612 Poly-Olbion by Michael Drayton (started by at least 1598, republished in 1622 with a second part, poem)
* 1612 *Albions England* by William Warner (Robin mentioned in the hermit's speech)
* 1779 *The history of Whitby, and of Whitby abbey, before the conquest* by Lionel Charlton
* 1795 *Robin Hood: A Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, Now Extant, Relative to that Celebrated English Outlaw* by Joseph Ritson
* 1818 To The Same by John Hamilton Raynolds (poem)
* 1818 To E--, With the Foregoing Sonnets by John Hamilton Raynolds (poem)
* 1818 Robin Hood: To a Friend by John Keats (poem, response to two sonnets by John Hamilton Raynolds)
* 1818 To a Friend, On Robin Hood by John Hamilton Raynolds (poem response to sonnet by John Keats)
* 1819 *Ivanhoe* by Walter Scott
* 1820 How Robin Hood and His Outlaws Lived by Leigh Hunt (poem)
* 1820 Robin Hood, a Child by Leigh Hunt (poem)
* 1820 Robin Hood, an Outlaw by Leigh Hunt (poem)
* 1820 Robin Hood's Flight by Leigh Hunt (poem)
* 1820-1834 Robin Hood: A Fragment by Caroline Bowles Southey & Robert Southey (incomplete poem, published 1847)
* 1822 *Maid Marian* by Thomas Love Peacock
* 1828 The Death of Robin Hood by Bernand Barton (poem)
* 1838-1840 *Robin Hood and Little John; or, the Merrie Men of Sherwood Forest* by Pierce Egan the Younger
* 1842 Robin Hood by George Daniel (poem)
* 1847 Sonnets on Robin Hood I by John Hamilton Reynolds (poem)
* 1847 Sonnets on Robin Hood II by John Hamilton Reynolds (poem)
* 1862 *The Prince of Thieves* (Tales of Robin Hood #1) by Alexandre Dumas
* 1864 *Robin Hood: The Outlaw* (Tales of Robin Hood #2) by Alexandre Dumas
* 1865 *The Life and Adventures of Robin Hood* by John B. Marsh
* 1865 Of Robin Hood's Death and Burial by Sebastian Evans (poem)
* 1865 An Hour of Robin Hood by W. J. Linton (poem)
* 1870 *The Bow* by Eliza Cook (poem)
* 1874 *Little John and the Red Friar: A Lay of Sherwood* by Bon Gaultier (William Edmondstune Aytoun, poem)
* 1882-1898 "The Child Ballads" collected by Francis James Child
* 1883 *The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire* by Howard Pyle
* 1897 *The Story of Robin Hood* (Robinson Crusoe Series) by McLoughlin Brothers
* 1889 *The Romanic History of Robin Hood* by Barry Pain
* 1889 *The Story of Robin Hood* by McLoughlin Brothers
* 1891 *The Adventures of Robin Hood* by J. Walker McSpadden, illustrated by Greg Hildebrandt
* 1903 *Robin Hood His Book* by Eva March Tappan
* 1906 Robin Hood's Goodnight by Nora Chesson (poem)
* 1908 *Heroic Legends: The Stories of St. George and the Dragon, Robin Hood, Richard and Blondel, and Other Legends* by Agnes Grozier Herbertson
* 1908 *Bold Robin Hood and his Outlaw Band* by Louis Rhead, illustrated by Louis Rhead
* 1912 *Robin Hood* by Henry Gilbert
* 1913-1920 A Song of Sherwood by Alfred Noyes (poem)
* 1914 *Robin Hood and His Merry Men* by Maude Radford Warren, illustrated by Milo Winter
* 1917 *The Adventures of Robin Hood: An English Legend* by Paul Creswick, illustrated by N.C. Wyeth
* 1918 The Martin-Song of Friar Tuck by Alfred Noyes (poem)
* 1923 *Robin Hood His Deeds and Adventures as Recounted in the Old English Ballads* selected and illustrated by Lucy Fitch Perkins
* 1928 "Robin Hood in Scotland." *Chambers Journal* 18 by Lewis Spence
* 1928 *Robin Hood* (Windermere Series) by Edith Heal, Illustrated by Dan Content
* 1928 *Robin Hood and His Life in the Merry Greenwood* by Rose Yeatman Woolf, illustrated by Howard Davie
* 1934 *Bows against the Barons* by Geoffrey Trease
* 1938 *The Sword in the Stone* (The Once and Future King #1) by T. H. White
* 1938 *Adventures of Robin Hood* (movie tie in with color plates)
* 1948 *The Good Yeomen* by Jay Williams
* 1948 *Robin Hood* by Henry Gilbert, illustrated by Garth Williams, introduction by Angelo Patri
* 1948 *Robin Hood’s Arrow: Being an account of Dan of the Mill and his adventures with Robin and his Merry Men* by Eugenia Stone, illustrated by Rafaello Busoni
* 1951 *Robin Hood* by Carola Oman
* 1953 *Dowsing the Demon* by Clayton Emery
* 1956 *The Adventures of Robin Hood* by Roger Lancelyn Green, illustrated by Arthur Hall
* 1963 *Tales of Brave Adventure* by Enid Blyton
* 1965 *The Star and the Sword* by Pamela Melnikoff
* 1968 *Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest* by Ann McGovern, illustrated by Tracy Sugarman
* 1968 *The Last Unicorn* (The Last Unicorn, #1) by Peter S. Beagle
* 1968 *The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood* by Howard Pyle, illustrated by Don Irwin (Pyle's 1883 book with new illustrations)
* 1971 *Robin Hood* by J.C. Holt
* 1971 *Robin Hood* by Antonia Fraser
* 1978 *Robin Hood and the King’s Ransom* by Desmond Dunkerley, illustrated by Bernard Brett
* 1978 *Robin Hood* by Jane Carruth, illustrated by Chris Higham
* 1978 *Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow* (Disney’s Wonderful World of Reading) unknown author
* 1979 *Robin Hood* by Bernard Miles, illustrated by Victor Ambrus
* 1981 *The Death of Robin Hood* by Peter Vansittart
* 1983 *Locksley* by Nicholas Chase (pen name for Anthony and Christopher Hyde)
* 1984 *Mythago Wood* (Mythago Wood, #1) by Robert Holdstock
* 1986 *Robin of Sherwood* (Robin of Sherwood #1) by Richard Carpenter
* 1986 *Robin of Sherwood and the Hounds of Lucifer* (Robin of Sherwood #2) by Robin May
* 1986 *Richard Carpenter's Robin Of Sherwood: The Hooded Man* (Robin of Sherwood #3) by Anthony Horowitz
* 1986 *Robin of Sherwood Annual* (Robin of Sherwood) by Richard Carpenter
* 1987 *Robin Hood* by Roderick Hunt illustrated by Alex Brychta
* 1988 *The Outlaws of Sherwood* by Robin McKinley
* 1988 *Robin of Sherwood: The Time of the Wolf* (Robin of Sherwood #4) by Richard Carpenter
* 1988 *On the trail of Robin Hood* by Richard De Vries
* 1988 *Robin Hood* by Mark Dunster
* 1988 *Robin Hood* (La Spiga Junior) by Donatella Beri (Italian)
* 1988 *Robin Hood* by Louis Rhead, illustrated by Louis Rhead, Walter Crane, & Frank Godwin (Rhead's 1908 book with additional color illustrations)
* 1990 *The Robin Hood Ambush* (Robert Silverbergs Time Tours, No. 1) by William F. Wu
* 1991 *Sherwood* (Sherwood #1) by Parke Godwin
* 1991 *Through a Dark Mist* (Robin Hood, #1) by Marsha Canham
* 1991 *The Fantastic Adventures of Robin Hood* (Anthology) by Mike Resnick, Brian M. Thomsen, Nancy A. Collins, Matthew J. Costello, George Alec Effinger, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Ed Gorman , Midori Snyder, Barbara Delaplace, Nancy Holder, Laura Resnick, Steve Rasnic Tem, & Clayton Emory
* 1992 *Lady of the Forest* (Sherwood 1) by Jennifer Roberson
* 1992 *Morningstar* by David Gemmell
* 1992 *Disney's Robin Hood: Junior Novelization* by A.L. Singer
* 1993 *The Forestwife* (Forestwife Saga, #1) by Theresa Tomlinson
* 1993 *Robin and the King* (Sherwood #2) by Parke Godwin
* 1994 *In the Shadow of Midnight* (Robin Hood, #2) by Marsha Canham
* 1995 *Robin's Country* by Monica Furlong
* 1995 *The Sherwood Game* by Esther M. Friesner
* 1997 *Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales* published by the Medieval Institute, Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages Staff
* 1997 *The Last Arrow* (Robin Hood, #3) by Marsha Canham
* 1997 *Robin Hood* by Imogen Lycett Green
* 1997 *Robin Hood* (DK Classics) by Neil Philip, illustrated by Neil Harris
* 1998 *In a Dark Wood* by Michael Cadnum
* 1998 *Robin Hood According to Spike Milligan* by Spike Milligan
* 1998 *The Adventures of Robin Hood and Marian* by Adrian Mitchell
* 1998 *The Adventures of Robin Hood* (Ladybird Picture Classics) by John Grant, illustrated by Victor G. Ambrus
* 1998 *Playing Robin Hood : the legend as performance in five centuries* by Lois Potter

* 1998 *Robin Hood : the shaping of the legend* by Jeffrey L Singman
* 1998 *Robin Hood* by Sally M Stockton
* 1998 *The Legend of Robin Hood* by Richard Rutherford-Moore
* 1998 *Medieval Outlaws: Ten Tales in Modern English* edited by Thomas H. Ohlgren
* 1998 *Robin Hood* by Roger Lancelyn Green, abridged by Nick Warburton
* 1998 *Robin Hood : A Good Outlaw?* (Reputations in History) by Josh Brooman
* 1998 *Robin Hood: The Boy Who Became a Legend* by Kathryn Lasky
* 1998 *Child of the May* (The Forestwife #2) by Theresa Tomolinson
* 1998 *Robin Hood and the Lords of Wellow* by Tony Molyneux-Smith
* 1998 *Robin Hood Book* by Enid Blyton, illustrated by Debbie Ryder (1930 book, 1998 illustrations)
* 1998 *La leggenda di Robin Hood* by Tony Wolf, Clementina Coppini, illustrated by Tony Wolf (Polish, Romanian, & Italian editions)
* 1999 *Lady Of Sherwood* (Sherwood 2) by Jennifer Roberson
* 2000 *Hawksmaid: The Untold Story of Robin Hood and Maid Marian* by Kathryn Lasky
* 2000 *Robin Hood* by Benedict Flynn & Katie Flynn
* 2000 *Robin Hood: Outlaw Or Greenwood Myth* by Fran Doel & Geoff Doel
* 2000 *Sherwood: Original Stories from the World of Robin Hood* (Anthology) illustrated by Dennis Nolan: *Our Lady of the Greenwood* by Jane Yolen, *Marian* by Maxine Trottier, *Under the Bending Yew* by Annja Kirwan, *Know Your True Enemy* by Nancy Springer, *The Children's War* by Timons Esaias, *Straight and True* by Robert J. Harris, *At Fountain Abbey* by Mary France Zambreno, *Robin Hood v 1.5.3* by Adam Stemple
* 2001 *Rowan Hood: Outlaw Girl of Sherwood Forest* (Rowan Hood #1) by Nancy Springer
* 2002 *Lionclaw* (Rowan Hood #2) by Nancy Springer
* 2002 *The Gallows in the Greenwood* by Phyllis Ann Karr
* 2002 *Robin Hood and the Beasts of Sherwood: Clayton Emery's Tales of Robin Hood* by Clayton Emery
* 2003 *Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography* by Stephen Thomas Knight
* 2003 *Outlaw Princess of Sherwood* (Rowan Hood, #3) by Nancy Springer
* 2004 *Wild Boy* (Rowan Hood #4) by Nancy Springer
* 2004 *Maid Marian* by Elsa Watson
* 2005 *Rowan Hood Returns* (Rowan Hood, #5) by Nancy Springer
* 2006 *Hood* (King Raven #1) by Stephen R. Lawhead
* 2007 *Scarlet* (King Raven, #2) by Stephen R. Lawhead
* 2008 *Robin Hood* (Usborne Young Reading Series) by Rob Lloyd Jones, illustrated by Alan Marks
* 2009 *Tuck* (King Raven, #3) by Stephen R. Lawhead
* 2009 *Outlaw* (The Outlaw Chronicles #1) by Angus Donald
* 2009 *Hodd* by Adam Thorpe
* 2009 *Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood* by Tony Lee, illustrated by Sam Hart & Artur Fujita
* 2010 *A Brief History of Robin Hood* by Nigel Cawthorne
* 2010 *Robin Hood The English Outlaw Unmasked* David Baldwin
* 2010 *Holy Warrior* (The Outlaw Chronicles, #2) by Angus Donald
* 2010 *The World Above: A Retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk and Robin Hood* by Cameron Dokey
* 2011 *King's Man* (The Outlaw Chronicles #3) by Angus Donald
* 2011 *Royal Rebel* by Dana Taylor
* 2012 *The Arrow of Sherwood* by Lauren Johnson
* 2012 *Robin: Lady of Legend* by R.M. ArceJaeger
* 2012 *Scarlet* by A.C. Gaughen
* 2012 *Warlord* (The Outlaw Chronicles #4) by Angus Donald
* 2012 *Hunter of Sherwood: Knight of Shadows* (Guy of Gisburne #1) by Toby Venables
* 2013 *Wolf's Head* (The Forest Lord #1) by Steven A. McKay
* 2013 *Will in Scarlet* by Matthew Cody
* 2013 *Greenwode* by J. Tullos Hennig
* 2013 *In the Greenwood* by Mari Ness
* 2013 *A Girl's Tale* (Robyn Hood, #1) by K.M. Shea
* 2013 *Robyn Hode* (Robyn Hode #1) by David Pilling
* 2013 *A Little Book of Robin Hood* by Michael Dacre, introduction by Fiona Collins
* 2013 *Fight for Freedom* (Robyn Hood #2) by K.M. Shea
* 2013 *Hood: Noble Secrets* (Hood, #1) by Iain Meadows
* 2013 *Robin Hood: The Wrath of God* (Robyn Hode #2) by David Pilling
* 2014 *Hunter of Sherwood: The Red Hand* (Guy of Gisburne, #2) by Toby Venables
* 2014 *The Wolf and the Raven* (The Forest Lord #2) by Steven A. McKay
* 2014 *The Iron Castle* (Outlaw Chronicles #6) by Angus Donald
* 2014 *Longbow* (The Saga of Roland Inness #1) by Wayne Grant
* 2014 *Hood: The Scribe Of Sherwood* (Hood, #2) by Iain Meadows
* 2014 *Men of the Cross* (Battle Scars #1) by Charlene Newcomb
* 2015 *Rise of the Wolf* (The Forest Lord #3) by Steven A. McKay
* 2015 *The Huntress of Thornbeck Forest* (A Medieval Fairy Tale, #1) by Melanie Dickerson
* 2015 *Warbow* (The Saga of Roland Inness #2) by Wayne Grant
* 2015 *Hood: Warriors' Harvest* (Hood, #3) by Iain Meadows
* 2015 *Everything I Do* (Rosa Fitzwalter, #1) by M.C. Frank
* 2015 *Robin Lockslay Episode One: The Honey Trap* by Lana Pecherczyk
* 2015 *Mark of the Black Arrow* (Robin Hood: Demon's Bane, #1) by Debbie Viguié
* 2015 *Robin Hood: Wolf's Head* by Eric Tanafon
* 2015 *The Broken Realm* (The Saga of Roland Inness #3) by Wayne Grant
* 2015 *Hood: King's Command* (Hood, #4) by Iain Meadows
* 2016 *Blood of the Wolf* (The Forest Lord #4) by Steven A. McKay
* 2016 *The Ransomed Crown* (The Saga of Roland Inness #4) by Wayne Grant
* 2017 *Hunter of Sherwood: Hood* (Guy of Gisburne #3) by Toby Venables
* 2017 *No Good Deed* by Kara Connolly
* 2018 *Lords of the Greenwood* by Chris Thorndycroft

#### **Comics:**

* Arrow #2
* Green Hornet Comics #7-10
* Tales of Robin Hood #1-6
* Hit Comics #26, 51
* Kid Eternity #2
* Smash Comics #27
* Jumbo Comics #67
* Cat-Man Comics #26
* Robin Hood and Company Comics vol. 3 #32 -34
* Robin Hood and His Merry Men #28-38
* Robin Hood #1-5
* Young Heroes #35-37
* The Adventures of Robin Hood #1-8 (reprint)
* Robin Hood 1-2, 9-10, 15(reprint)
* Treasure Chest of Fun & Facts vol. 3 #14-17
* Boy Comics #3-32

#### **Board Games**

* 1938. The Adventures of Robin Hood. (Whitman)
* 1956. The Adventures of Robin Hood. (Bettye-B)
* 1973. Walt Disney Productions Robin Hood Game. (Milton Bradley)
* 1974. Robin Hood Game. (Waddington Games)
* 1979. The Legend of Robin Hood. (Avalon Hill, OSG)
* 1991. Robin Hood. (Laurin Company)
* 2009. Sherwood Forest. (Eggertspiele)
* 2016. Sheriff of Nottingham, Merry Men Expansion. (Arcane Wonders)

### Character Filmography

##### **Film:**

* 1908 *Robin Hood* (short) played by unknown, film made by Kalem Company
* 1912 *Robin Hood* played by Robert Frazer
* 1912 *Robin Hood Outlawed* (short) played by A. Brian Plant
* 1913 *Robin Hood (1913)* played by  William Russell
* 1922 *Robin Hood* (as The Earl of Huntingdon) played by Douglas Fairbanks
* 1938 *The Adventures of Robin Hood* played by Errol Flynn
* 1948 *The Prince of Thieves* played by Jon Hall
* 1948 *Robin Hoodlum* (short) voiced byJohn T. Smith
* 1948 *Robin Hood-winked* (short) voiced byJack Mercer
* 1949 *Rabbit Hood* (short) voiced byMel Blanc
* ~~1950 *Rogues of Sherwood Forest* (as Robin, Earl of Huntington) played by John Derek~~
* 1952 *The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men* played by Richard Todd
* 1954 *The Men of Sherwood Forest* played by Don Taylor
* 1958 *Robin Hood Daffy* (short) voiced by Mel Blanc
* 1958 *Robin Hoodwinked* (short) Tom and Jerry short; character not voiced
* 1960 *Sword of Sherwood Forest* played by Richard Greene
* 1967 *A Challenge for Robin Hood* (as Robin de Courtenay) played by Barrie Ingham
* 1969 *Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood* (as Robert of Locksley) played by David Warbeck
* 1973 *Robin Hood (1973)* voiced by Brian Bedford
* 1976 *Robin and Marian* played by Sean Connery
* 1988 *Aaj Ka Robin Hood* played by Anil Chatterjee (modern retelling set in India)
* 1991 *Robin Hood (1991)* played by  Patrick Bergin
* 1991 *Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves* played by Kevin Costner
* 1991 *Robin Hood (Animated)* voiced byRegina Reagan
* 1993 *Robin Hood: Men in Tights* played by Cary Elwes
* 1998 *Robin Hood* played by David Wood
* 2010 *Robin Hood (2010)* (as Robin Longstride) played by Russell Crowe
* 2018 *Robin Hood* played by Taron Egerton

##### **Television:**

* 1955-1959 The *Adventures of Robin Hood* (143 episodes)
* 1966-1969 Rocket Robin Hood
* 1968-1968 The Legend of Robin Hood
* 1975-1975 The Legend of Robin Hood (mini-series)
* 1984-1986 *Robin of Sherwood* (26 episodes)
* 1991-1992 Young Robin Hood
* 2006-2009 BBC's *Robin Hood* (39 episodes, Wiki)
* 2014-2016 Robin Hood: Mischief in Sherwood

##### **Video Games:**

* 2002 Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood

## Gallery

Robin Hood by James Edwin McConnell ()Robin Hood by Louis Rhead**Robin Hood** and the Lady, by Walter CraneErrol Flynn as **Robin Hood** in *The Adventures of Robin Hood* (1938)Errol Flynn as **Robin Hood** with Patric Knowles as Will Scarlet in *The Adventures of Robin Hood* (1938)Publicity still of Jon Hall as **Robin Hood**, Patricia Morison as Lady Marian Claire, Adele Jergens as Lady Christabel and Michael Duane as Sir Allan Claire in *The Prince of Thieves* (1948)Clive Mantle, Michael Praed, Phil Rose, Mark Ryan, Judi Trott, Peter Llewellyn Williams, and Ray Winstone in Robin of Sherwood (1984)Kevin Costner, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Nick Brimble, and Daniel Newman in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)Poster for *The Adventures of Robin Hood* (1938)Olivia de Havilland as Maid Marian with Errol Flynn as **Robin Hood** in *The Adventures of Robin Hood* (1938)Errol Flynn as **Robin Hood** in *The Adventures of Robin Hood* (1938)Richard Greene as Robin Hood in *The Adventures of Robin Hood (Show)* (1955-1960)Robin Hood by Saeed Jalabi for the Sheriff of Nottingham board game Merry Men expansion pack (2016).Robin Hood as seen in Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood video game (2002)
## External links

* Hero Wiki
* Robin Hood at International Hero
* Robin Hood at Wikipedia
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* Comic Vine
* Disney Wiki
* Once Upon a Time Wiki
* Shrek Wiki
* Muppet Wiki
* BBC's Robin Hood Wiki
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1. ↑ Knight, Stephen. "Robin Hood and the Royal Restoration." *Critical Survey 5* (1993)
2. ↑ Knight, Stephen (Editor), Ohlgren, Thomas H. (Editor). "Robin Hood and His Crew of Souldiers: Introduction." *Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales.* Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications. (1997)
3. ↑ Knight, Stephen (Editor), Ohlgren, Thomas H. (Editor). "Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valour, and Marriage: Introduction." *Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales.* Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications. (1997)