Matter of the Greenwood Figure
Friar Tuck
- Summary
- Also a latecomer, entering through the play tradition (Robin Hood and the Friar). A real chaplain, Robert Stafford of Lindfield, used 'Frere Tuk' as an outlaw alias in Sussex in the 1410s-20s, which may be cause or effect.
- Kind
- legendary
Worldviews
Robin of the May Games, The Ballad Outlaw
Provenance
- Source method
- Web research
- Review status
- DRAFT
- Confidence
- MEDIUM