When thinking about the many iterations of Robin Hood, it’s hard to not think about the idealized version of the outlaw bandit. The author, Roger Lancelyn Green, wrote a perfect depiction of the folk hero in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood.

Fiction can create compelling stories and can insert action and suspense where otherwise there was very little. In Robin Hood by J.C. Holt, we see that action and adventure still existed in the real world. In this post, we are analyzing Robin Hood by Holt. This novel takes a historical look at the lore surrounding Robin Hood and attempts to separate fact from fiction.

Retelling a folktale always seems to change it a bit. As such, when writing a complex story, sometimes a retelling can be a disaster. Sometimes, though, you can create a much-lauded piece of work. Robin Hood, for instance, has many retellings, and some of them work and some of them do not. In this post, we are going to examine The Outlaws of Sherwood by Robin McKinley. We will see how a retelling helped shape the Robin Hood mythos.