Robin Hood’s Origins, Little John & The Trickster
We summarize Howard Pyle’s Robin Hood’s Prologue, on the green-clad Robbing man’s origins and his meeting, being beat by, and joining forces with Little John. Then we discuss Robin Hood as a proper response to the illegitimate and ravenous leader as well as his being a trickster figure that draws attention to problems in leadership, which lead either to corrections or bigger problems and even systemic collapse.
Robin Hood, a lad of eighteen, is mocked by the King’s foresters on his way to an archery contest. He walks away and one of them shoots an arrow past his head. He turns and shoots that…
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