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Robin Hood -- Bold Outlaw of Barnsdale and Sherwood Robin Hood is a legendary heroic outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature and film. According to legend, he was a highly skilled archer and swordsman. In some versions of the legend, he is depicted as being of noble birth, and in modern retellings he is sometimes depicted as having fought in the Crusades before returning to England to find his lands taken by the Sheriff. In the oldest known versions he is instead a member Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood the yeoman Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood. Traditionally depicted dressed in Lincoln greenhe is said to have robbed from the rich and given to the poor. Through retellings, additions, and variations, a body of familiar characters associated with Robin Hood has been created. These include his lover, Maid Marianhis band of outlaws, the Merry Menand his chief opponent, the Sheriff of Nottingham. The Sheriff is often depicted as assisting Prince John in usurping the rightful but absent King Richardto whom Robin Hood remains loyal. His partisanship of the common people and his hostility to the Sheriff of Nottingham are early recorded features of the legend, but his interest in the rightfulness of the king is not, and neither is his setting in the reign of Richard I. He became a popular folk figure in the Late Middle Agesand the earliest known ballads featuring him are from the 15th century s. There have been numerous variations and adaptations of the story over the subsequent years, and the story continues to be widely represented in literature, film, and television. Robin Hood is considered one of the best known tales of English folklore. The historicity of Robin Hood is not proven and has been debated for centuries. There are numerous references to historical figures with similar names that have been proposed as possible evidence of his existence, some dating back to the late 13th century. At least eight plausible origins to the story have been mooted Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood historians and folklorists, including suggestions that "Robin Hood" was a stock alias used by or in reference to bandits. The first clear reference to "rhymes of Robin Hood" is from the alliterative poem Piers Plowmanthought to have been composed in the s, followed shortly afterwards by a quotation of a later common proverb, [1] "many men speak of Robin Hood and never shot his bow", [2] in Friar Daw's Reply c. However, the earliest surviving copies of the narrative ballads that tell his story date to the second half of the 15th century, or the first decade of the 16th century. In these early accounts, Robin Hood's partisanship of the lower classes, his devotion to the Virgin Mary and associated special regard for women, his outstanding skill as an archerhis anti-clericalismand his particular animosity towards the Sheriff of Nottingham are already clear. The latter has Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood part of the legend since at least the later 15th century, when he is mentioned in a Robin Hood play script. In modern popular culture, Robin Hood is typically seen as a contemporary and supporter of the lateth-century king Richard the LionheartRobin being driven to outlawry during the misrule of Richard's brother John while Richard was away at the Third Crusade. This view first gained Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood in the 16th century. The early compilation, A Gest of Robyn Hodenames the king as 'Edward'; and while it does show Robin Hood accepting the King's pardon, he later repudiates it and returns to the greenwood. The setting of the early ballads is usually attributed by scholars to either the 13th century or the 14th, although it is recognised they are not necessarily historically consistent. The early ballads are also quite clear on Robin Hood's social status: he is a yeoman. While the precise meaning of this term changed over time, including free retainers of an aristocrat and small landholders, it always referred to commoners. The essence of it in the present context was "neither a knight nor a peasant or 'husbonde' but something in between". As well as ballads, the legend was also transmitted by 'Robin Hood games' or plays Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood were an important part of the late medieval and early modern May Day festivities. The first record of a Robin Hood game was in in Exeterbut the reference does not indicate how old or widespread this custom was at the time. The Robin Hood games are known to have flourished in the later Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood and 16th centuries. Written after[21] it contains many of the elements still associated with the legend, from the Nottingham setting to the bitter enmity between Robin and the local sheriff. The first printed version is A Gest of Robyn Hode c. Other early texts are dramatic pieces, Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood earliest being the fragmentary Robyn Hod and the Shryff off Notyngham [25] c. These are particularly noteworthy as they show Robin's integration into May Day rituals towards the end of the Middle Ages; Robyn Hod and the Shryff off Notynghamamong other points of interest, contains the earliest reference to Friar Tuck. The plots of neither "the Monk" nor "the Potter" are included in the Gest ; and neither is the plot of " Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne ", which is probably at least as old as those two ballads although preserved in a more recent copy. Each of these three ballads survived in a single copy, so it is unclear how much of the medieval legend has survived, and what has survived may not be typical of the medieval legend. It has been argued that the fact that the surviving ballads were preserved in written form in itself makes it unlikely they were typical; in particular, stories with an interest for the gentry were by this view Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood likely to be preserved. The character of Robin in these first texts is rougher edged than in his later incarnations. In "Robin Hood and the Monk", for example, he is shown as quick tempered and violent, assaulting Little John for Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood him in an archery contest; in the same ballad Much the Miller's Son casually kills a 'little page ' in the course of rescuing Robin Hood from prison. As it happens the next traveller is not poor, but it seems in context that Robin Hood is stating a general policy. The first explicit statement to the effect that Robin Hood habitually robbed from the rich to give the poor can be found in John Stow 's Annales of Englandabout a century after the publication of the Gest. Within Robin Hood's band, medieval forms of courtesy rather than modern ideals of equality are generally in evidence.