Matter of the Greenwood Figure
Robin Hood
- Summary
- The outlaw of the greenwood. A yeoman in the earliest surviving texts, a summer-game role in the parish revels, an earl from 1598, a redistributor from 1795, a film star from 1922. No securely identified historical original.
- Kind
- legendary
Worldviews
The Ballad Outlaw, Robin of the May Games, Robert, Earl of Huntington, Ritson's Radical, The Technicolor Robin, Prince of Thieves and the Heritage Hero
Provenance
- Source method
- Synthesis
- Review status
- DRAFT
- Confidence
- HIGH