As You Like It, I.i

Matter of the Greenwood Document

Summary: Charles reports that the banished Duke and his followers live in the forest of Arden 'like the old Robin Hood of England', with many young gentlemen flocking to him and fleeting the time carelessly as they did in the golden world. Robin as a byword for pastoral exile, written a year after Munday.
Date: c. 1599
Author: William Shakespeare