Into the forest with Robin Hood on an English time trip

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: June 2, 1991| Author: | Copyright information

`Some scholarly contrarians contend that Robin Hood never lived," acknowledges Stephen M. Davis, author of TimeTraveler's Guide: Robin Hood's England.

Wet-blanket historians maintain that "he was invented by sensation-seeking minstrels - much as a supermarket tabloid might today headline a story about aliens landing on earth. The troubadours' objective: to gather an audience (and a regular income) by tapping popular resentments and dreams with a whopping tale."

But you don't have to believe there really was any such rob-the-rich hero to relish Errol Flynn's swashbuckling 1938 portrayal ...

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