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Wendy Doniger: The incarnations of Robin Hood, 22 July 2004
Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography
by Stephen Knight.
Cornell, 247 pp., £14.50, May 2003,0 8014 3885 3 Show More
by Stephen Knight.
Cornell, 247 pp., £14.50, May 2003,
“... In the 1964 film Robin and the Seven Hoods, when someone compares ‘Robbo’ (Frank Sinatra) to Robin Hood, one of the gangsters asks: ‘Who’s Robin Hood?’ And another replies: ‘Well, he was a hood, some Englishman who lived long ago and had an operation going for him in the forest. And I guess the "robin” means he stole birds ... ”