Matter of the Greenwood Figure
Howard Pyle
- Summary
- The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883) is the version most English-speaking children have actually read, and its illustrations fixed the visual costume - the pointed cap, the belted tunic, the greenwood. Pyle sanitised the violence thoroughly.
- Dates
- 1853-1911
- Kind
- author-illustrator
Worldviews
Provenance
- Source method
- Web research
- Review status
- DRAFT
- Confidence
- HIGH