Author : Paul Buhle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:690087097
Robin Hood
Paul Buhle
Robin Hood People S Outlaw And Forest Hero
Robin Hood People S Outlaw And Forest Hero Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Robin Hood People S Outlaw And Forest Hero book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Robin Hood: People's Outlaw and Forest Hero
Paul Buhle
Author : Paul Buhle
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781604866599
Robin Hood: People's Outlaw and Forest Hero by Paul Buhle Pdf
Where and what was Robin Hood? Why is an outlaw from fourteenth century England still a hero today, with films, festivals and songs dedicated to his living memory? This book explores the mysteries, the historical evidence, and the trajectory that led to centuries of village festivals around Mayday and the green space of nature unconquered by the forces in power. Great revolutionaries including William Morris adopted Robin as hero, children’s books offered many versions, and Robin entered modern popular culture with cheap novels, silent films and comics. There, in the world of popular culture, Robin Hood continues to holds unique and secure place. The “bad-good” hero of pulp urban fiction of the 1840s–50s, and more important, the Western outlaw who thwarts the bankers in pulps, films, and comics, is essentially Robin Hood. So are Zorro, the Cisco Kid, and countless Robin Hood knockoff characters in various media. Robin Hood has a special resonance for leftwing influences on American popular culture in Hollywood, film and television. During the 1930s–50s, future blacklist victims devised radical plots of “people’s outlaws,” including anti-fascist guerilla fighters, climaxing in The Adventures of Robin Hood, network television 1955–58, written under cover by victims of the Blacklist, seen by more viewers than any other version of Robin Hood. Robin Hood: People’s Outlaw and Forest Hero also features 30 pages of collages and comic art, recuperating the artistic interpretations of Robin from seven centuries, and offering new comic art as a comic-within-a book. With text by Paul Buhle, comics and assorted drawings by Christopher Hutchinson, Gary Dumm, and Sharon Rudahl; Robin Hood: People’s Outlaw and Forest Hero adds another dimension to the history and meaning of rebellion.
Robin Hood Handbook
Mike Dixon-Kennedy
Author : Mike Dixon-Kennedy
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780752495606
Robin Hood Handbook by Mike Dixon-Kennedy Pdf
Robin Hood, whether riding through the glen, robbing the rich to pay the poor or giving the Sheriff of Nottingham his come-uppance, is one of the most captivating and controversial legendary figures. Was there a historical figure behind the legends? Did Robin and his Merry Men rampage through Sherwood Forest? Or did he spend most of his time in Barnsdale Wood in Yorkshire? And is the story of the freedom-loving Saxons refusing to be put under the Norman yoke, as portrayed in the Errol Flynn films, true?Mike Dixon-Kennedy ranges far and wide in his quest to present a complete picture of the exploits of this indestructible hero, drawing on ballads, poems, proverbs, films, novels, folklore, musicals and place-names.
Robin Hood: The Legacy of a Folk Hero
Robert White
Author : Robert White
Publisher : BLKDOG Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Robin Hood: The Legacy of a Folk Hero by Robert White Pdf
If you thought you knew about Robin Hood… then think again! Written by Robert White, chairman of the World Wide Robin Hood Society. Many tales have been told about Robin Hood. The traditional stories of good versus evil and his quest to regain his rightful inheritance are universally appealing. The legend has intrigued generation after generation and everyone has their own personal vision of Robin Hood - a swashbuckling hero; a romantic outlaw; a bandit thief; a fighter of injustice or a benevolent champion of the people. Numerous books have been written by historians trying to untangle the myth, establish his actual existence and speculate on just who he might have actually been. Consequently, the subject of the globally renowned hero of English folklore has become extensively complex but the observations included in this publication should provide a brief overview of some of the key facts, issues and perceptions surrounding Robin Hood. Robin Hood: The Legacy of a Folk Hero gives a fascinating insight into the numerous aspects of one of the world’s most enduring and iconic legends. Robert White discusses interesting facts and titbits surrounding the outlaw, and then reflects on how the Sherwood Forest hero has become a global phenomenon who, over 800 years, evolved into 'the people’s champion'. Embark on an journey from the legend’s mythical roots to how, across the ages, the tales of Robin and his merry men has developed in many diverse ways that still impact us to this day. Whatever your opinions and beliefs, this title will reveal just why Robin Hood has become so much more than simply a mythical outlaw of English folklore.
The Outlaws of Sherwood
Robin McKinley
Author : Robin McKinley
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781497673663
The Outlaws of Sherwood by Robin McKinley Pdf
The Newbery Medal–winning author of The Hero and the Crown brings the Robin Hood legend to vivid life. Young Robin Longbow, subapprentice forester in the King’s Forest of Nottingham, must contend with the dislike of the Chief Forester, who bullies Robin in memory of his popular father. But Robin does not want to leave Nottingham or lose the title to his father’s small tenancy, because he is in love with a young lady named Marian—and keeps remembering that his mother too was gentry and married a common forester. Robin has been granted a rare holiday to go to the Nottingham Fair, where he will spend the day with his friends Much and Marian. But he is ambushed by a group of the Chief Forester’s cronies, who challenge him to an archery contest . . . and he accidentally kills one of them in self-defense. He knows his own life is forfeit. But Much and Marian convince him that perhaps his personal catastrophe is also an opportunity: an opportunity for a few stubborn Saxons to gather together in the secret heart of Sherwood Forest and strike back against the arrogance and injustice of the Norman overlords.
Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest
Ann McGovern
Author : Ann McGovern
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1991-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0606032606
Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest by Ann McGovern Pdf
Relates the famous legend of Robin Hood who, with his brave companions, fought against injustice in twelfth-century England.
Robin Hood: English Outlaw
Richard Denham
Author : Richard Denham
Publisher : BLKDOG Publishing
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Robin Hood: English Outlaw by Richard Denham Pdf
‘A revealing and well-researched insight into the origins of the legend and its traditional influences.’ – Robert White, chairman of the Worldwide Robin Hood Society We all have an idea of Robin Hood, England’s most famous outlaw: a handsome and hooded woodsman in Lincoln green emerges from the crowd, effortlessly looses his bow at his target and splits another arrow in two to the astonishment of the spectators. We can imagine Robin Hood, but why, and where have our ideas of the man actually come from? What is most surprising about the legend of Robin Hood and his Merry Men is how much his tales have deviated since they were first conceived. We start almost a thousand years ago with a group of bandits, comical and criminal in equal measure, who despised the Church, kidnapped strangers and waged war on lords and landowners, but astonishingly, and perhaps inexplicably, Robin was destined for greater things. Robin, like his readership, adapted, evolved and changed with the long centuries. We see him turn into a righteous partisan, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor and heroically defending the people from the tyranny of King John until the return of Richard the Lionheart. Stories that we think are ancient are often less than a century old, politically correct additions from the nascent age of cinema. We find him now a Hollywood heart-throb, with perfect teeth, designer stubble and an almost supernatural skill in combat and romance as he conquers enemies and lovers alike. And, as history always reminds us, the stories we know are rarely the stories that are true. Robin Hood: English Outlaw gives a fascinating account of the famed rogue, unraveling the layers of legend and myth in search of the man who has always been an enigma. The story of Robin is inextricably linked with the story of England; he shares our greatest achievements, our proudest moments and our darkest chapters. And this is the enduring legacy of Robin Hood, whether man or myth, whether hero or villain, he is part of England’s story. We know Robin, the Merry Men and Sherwood Forest; we just don’t remember why.
Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest
Ann McGovern
Author : Ann McGovern
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0439236398
Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest by Ann McGovern Pdf
In a time when laws were unfair and the poor were left to starve, Robin Hood was a friend to those in need. Ann McGovern1s retelling of this classic tale transports young readers to an era of adventure and heroism.
Robin Hood
Angela Bull
Author : Angela Bull
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 0789457016
Robin Hood by Angela Bull Pdf
Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived as an outlaw in Sherwood Forest dedicated to fighting tyranny. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
West of Eden
Iain Boal,Janferie Stone,Michael Watts,Cal Winslow
Author : Iain Boal,Janferie Stone,Michael Watts,Cal Winslow
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781604867169
West of Eden by Iain Boal,Janferie Stone,Michael Watts,Cal Winslow Pdf
In the shadow of the Vietnam War, a significant part of an entire generation refused their assigned roles in the American century. Some took their revolutionary politics to the streets, others decided simply to turn away, seeking to build another world together, outside the state and the market. West of Eden charts the remarkable flowering of communalism in the 1960s and ’70s, fueled by a radical rejection of the Cold War corporate deal, utopian visions of a peaceful green planet, the new technologies of sound and light, and the ancient arts of ecstatic release. The book focuses on the San Francisco Bay Area and its hinterlands, which have long been creative spaces for social experiment. Haight-Ashbury’s gift economy—its free clinic, concerts, and street theatre—and Berkeley’s liberated zones—Sproul Plaza, Telegraph Avenue, and People’s Park—were embedded in a wider network of producer and consumer co-ops, food conspiracies, and collective schemes. Using memoir and flashbacks, oral history and archival sources, West of Eden explores the deep historical roots and the enduring, though often disavowed, legacies of the extraordinary pulse of radical energies that generated forms of collective life beyond the nuclear family and the world of private consumption, including the contradictions evident in such figures as the guru/predator or the hippie/entrepreneur. There are vivid portraits of life on the rural communes of Mendocino and Sonoma, and essays on the Black Panther communal households in Oakland, the latter-day Diggers of San Francisco, the Native American occupation of Alcatraz, the pioneers of live/work space for artists, and the Bucky dome as the iconic architectural form of the sixties. Due to the prevailing amnesia—partly imposed by official narratives, partly self-imposed in the aftermath of defeat—West of Eden is not only a necessary act of reclamation, helping to record the unwritten stories of the motley generation of communards and antinomians now passing, but is also intended as an offering to the coming generation who will find here, in the rubble of the twentieth century, a past they can use—indeed one they will need—in the passage from the privations of commodity capitalism to an ample life in common.
Discovering Robin Hood
Stephen Basdeo
Author : Stephen Basdeo
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781526777829
Discovering Robin Hood by Stephen Basdeo Pdf
The name of Joseph Ritson, born in Stockton-on-Tees in 1752, will be familiar to very few people. The name of Robin Hood is known the world over. Yet it was Ritson whose research in the late eighteenth century ensured the survival of the Robin Hood legend. He traveled all over the country looking for ancient manuscripts which told of the life and deeds of England’s most famous outlaw. Without his efforts, the legend of Robin Hood might have gone the way of other medieval outlaws such as Adam Bell — famous in their day but not so much now. Yet this is not only a story about the formation of the Robin Hood legend. Ritson’s story is one of rags to riches. Born in humble circumstances, his aptitude for learning meant that he rose through society’s ranks and became a successful lawyer, local official, and a gentleman. However, underneath the genteel and bourgeois façade of Joseph Ritson, Esq. was a revolutionary: having traveled to Paris at the height of the French Revolution, he was captivated by the revolutionaries’ ideology of liberté, egalité, fraternité. He returned to England as a true democrat who sought the abolition of the British monarchy and the ‘rotten’ parliamentary system and wished for French Revolution and its reign of terror to spread over to England. This the history of the life and times of Joseph Ritson: gentleman, scholar, and revolutionary.
Robin Hood
Paul D. Storrie
Author : Paul D. Storrie
Publisher : Graphic Universe
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780822565727
Robin Hood by Paul D. Storrie Pdf
Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived in Sherwood Forest as an outlaw dedicated to fighting tyranny. Presented in comic book format.
Robin Hood
Stephen Basdeo
Author : Stephen Basdeo
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781526729842
Robin Hood by Stephen Basdeo Pdf
Robin Hood is a national English icon. He is portrayed as a noble robber, who, along with his band of merry men, is said to have stolen from the rich and given to the poor. His story has been reimagined many times throughout the centuries. Readers will be introduced to some of the candidates who are thought to have been the real Robin Hood, before journeying into the fifteenth century and learning about the various ‘rymes of Robyn Hode’ that were in existence. This book then shows how Robin Hood was first cast as an earl in the sixteenth century, before discussing his portrayals as a brutish criminal in the eighteenth century. Then learn how Robin Hood became the epitome of an English gentleman in the Victorian era, before examining how he became an Americanized, populist hero fit for the silver screen during the twentieth century. Thus, this book will take readers on a journey through 800 years of English cultural and literary history by examining how the legend of Robin Hood has developed over time
Outlaw
Angus Donald
Author : Angus Donald
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748120659
Outlaw by Angus Donald Pdf
When he's caught stealing, young Alan Dale is forced to leave his family and go to live with a notorious band of outlaws in Sherwood Forest. Their leader is the infamous Robin Hood. A tough, bloodthirsty warrior, Robin is more feared than any man in the county. And he becomes a mentor for Alan; with his fellow outlaws, Robin teaches Alan how to fight - and how to win. But Robin is a ruthless man - and although he is Alan's protector, if Alan displeases him, he could also just as easily become his murderer.... From bloody battles to riotous feast days to marauding packs of wolves, Outlaw is a gripping, action-packed historical thriller that delves deep into the fascinating legend of Robin Hood.
Robin Hood
Stephen Knight
Author : Stephen Knight
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801438853
Robin Hood by Stephen Knight Pdf
In this engaging and deeply informed book, Knight looks at the different manifestations of Robin Hood at different times and places in a mythic biography with a thematic structure. Illustrations.
