A Jest of a Gest of Robin Hood

"Lythe and listin, gentilmen / That is a fine thing, I tell you that gode yeman / his name is Robyn Hode" (a gentleman of Robyn Hode). The story of Robin Hood has appeared many times in poetry, prose, play, movie. And writers, directors, and singers also offer almost the same number of versions. In 2010, Ridley Scott executed a story at the movie "Robin Hood" starring Russell Crowe. Ridley Scott remembered the story of the last year of the 11th century from France to London, Nottingham.

In 1598, Anthony Munday wrote a pair of Robin Hood's legendary "The Downfall" and Huntington's Robert Earl (1601). Drama These plays attract various sources including A Gest, apparently Robin Hood, and it affects Rogin Hood's story when it comes to modifying Richard I's story. Steven Thomas Knight hinted that Mondi had the Felke Fitzvalin century in the 12th history in history to prohibit the aristocracy and enemies of King John from making his Robin Hood. This drama is probably the first time that Robin Hood is regarded as Hall of the Huntington's Earl Robert and that Maryan's maid is "one of the semi-mythical Matilda persecuted by King John". The story of Robin Hood appeared at the Court of Henry VIII, written by a poet, pastor, and court John Skelton. Skeleton himself plays the role of Flair Tucker in the play.

Many of the most famous Robin Hood folk songs were from the Middle Ages, but there is a core that can be attributed confidently in the Middle Ages. These are Robin Hood and monks, Robin Hood and Gisborne, Robin Hood and Porter, and Robin Hod's Lytyll Geste. Since the 16th century, the basic characteristics of the legend have been distorted by proposals of Robin 's depraved nobility, playwrights who were eager to adopt this new element increased the romantic appeal of the story, I was robbed of their social bites. . Postmodern folk songs (which Mary Marianne, a member of Robin) also lost most of their vitality and poetic value as they lost their original social impulses and made them to exist.