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Robin Hood was a popular folk hero of medieval England, and his tale is recited in many English ballads from that time. He was said to be an outlaw resident of Sherwood Forest near Nottingham, UK, in the 12th and early 13th Centuries. However, some other versions of the story place his existence as late as the 14th or 15th Century.
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After the great success of Howard Pyle’s work, and continuing the trends of the last century, the early twentieth century saw further expansion of Robin Hood’s appearances. He remained a staple of the performing arts, with new plays, operas, and songs created about him, but he was perhaps most readily adopted by the new medium of film. The tale of Robin Hood is extremely suitable to young audiences. By this time, Robin’s motives have been made truly heroic: his villains are truly villainous, and Robin is portrayed as a moral figure who fights injustice. Most authors identify Robin as the dispossessed noble of the Tudor period, and this adds purpose to his rebellion. There are no inherent sexual connotations in the tale (such as lust, adultery, and revenge in Arthurian literature), and the tale itself generally ends with the overthrow of oppression and the redemption of the heroes.
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Most people don’t realize that the earliest Robin Hood tale was about a yeoman, who haunted Barnsdale Forest, not Sherwood. Robin he didn't become some sort of English nobleman fighting oppressors until Sir Walter Scott added a few touches to him in Ivanhoe. The original outlaw supposedly was a once a ragged vagrant moving from place to place, trying to just “make it.”
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There are stories of Robin Hood's tendency for unnecessary violence. Whether this is true or simply propaganda added by monks or whatnot is unknown. When Robin kills the sheriff in one story, he beheads him. Guy of Gisbourne is beheaded and his head is carried on the top of Robin's bow. One tale even goes so far as to suggest necrophilia with the dead corpse of Guy.
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A man named Thomas Gale was dean of York from 1697-1702, and he left in his papers the words that were supposedly on Robin Hood's grave. The date of death was recorded as 12-24-1247. A similar epitaph was published at the end of The True Tale of Robin Hood by Martin Parker, which gives the death date as 12-4-1198. The Parker epitaph reads: Robert Earle of Huntington/Lies under this little stone./No archer was like him so good;/His wildnesse named him Robbin Hood./Full thirteene yeares, and something more,/These northerne parts he vexed sore./Such out-lawes as he and his men/May England never know agen
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