Wow! eBookRobin Hood
by: McSpadden, J. Walker
Publisher: The Floating Press ( 2014-02-01 )
e-ISBN-13: 9781776530311
Language: English
Robin Hood
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Robin Hood
Robin Hood
Author(s): Nick Rennison (Author)
- Publisher: Pocket Essentials
- Publication Date: 14 Mar. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 160 pages
- ISBN-10: 1842432478
- ISBN-13: 9781842432471
Book Description
Robin Hood is England’s greatest folk hero. Everyone knows the story of the outlaw who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. Nick Rennison’s highly entertaining book begins with the search for the historical Robin. Was there ever a real Robin Hood? Rennison looks at the candidates who have been proposed over the years, from petty thieves to Knights Templar, before moving on to examine the many ways in which Robin Hood has been portrayed in literature and on the screen. He began as the hero of dozens and dozens of late medieval ballads. He appeared in plays by contemporaries of Shakespeare. In the Romantic era Robin was reinvented by Walter Scott as a Saxon champion in the struggle against the Normans. During the nineteenth century, he emerged as a hero in children’s literature. More recently he has been portrayed as everything from proto-socialist man of the people to anarchist thug. In the cinema he put in an appearance as early as 1908 and Douglas Fairbanks and then Errol Flynn turned him into the typical hero of Hollywood swashbucklers. In the last twenty years, Kevin Costner and Russell Crowe have provided their own very different interpretations of the character. On the small screen, Robin has been the hero of half-a-dozen TV shows from the 1950s series starring Richard Greene, which used many writers blacklisted by Hollywood, via the well-remembered Robin of Sherwood in the 1980s to the recent BBC series. As the twenty-first century marches through its second decade, Robin Hood is still very much with us. He is the subject of graphic novels and computer games. New films are in the offing. Robin is an archetypal hero who, it seems, can never die. This engaging book charts his life so far.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Rennison manages to pack a lot of very solid information into a slender book, moving easily in stages from an examination of the earliest stories and the question of whether there was an historical Hood, through the development of the story in literature and films to a look at the basis, historical and otherwise, for Robin’s associates and his enemies. All is delivered in an enviably easy style, both readable and engaging. –We Love This Book
About the Author
Nick Rennison has worked as a bookseller, editor and writer in London for many years. He has edited Waterstone’s Guide to Ideas, The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide and The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to Crime Fiction, is the author of The London Blue Plaque Guide, of Roger: A Biography, has edited an anthology entitled Poets on Poets, and is the author of Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorised Biography.
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