Into the Greenwood

What do you get when you combine a body builder known for playing Hercules, some martial arts action, and spaghetti westerns with an Alexandre Dumas novel?
Why a Robin Hood movie, of course!!!
This was easily the strangest Robin Hood movie that we've seen to date, but a fascinating film to consider in the context of the other films coming out at the same time. With Richard Hopkins-Lutz and Andy Fix.

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How did people in the middle ages perceive the figure of Robin Hood?
Did social class or occupation affect those perceptions?
How violent were the early stories?
Where did the idea come from that Robin Hood wears green?
Historian and Robin Hood scholar Will Hoff and I sit down to discuss how Robin Hood was viewed and how he was utilized between the 14th-16th centuries.
Thanks for listening!

For more from Will Hoff, follow True History of Robin Hood on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/truehistoryofrobinhood/

For our earlier episode about the tradition of outlaw tales in medieval England:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1727735/episodes/9254400

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Join us as we delve into this Italian film that loosely adapts a French novel that is itself an adaptation of an English story. We never quite figured out how Ivanhoe entered the narrative, but we did get to see one of the most brazen moves from any film version of Robin Hood ever!
With Richard Hopkins-Lutz and Leah Kahn.

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While much of my interview with Rob James includes information about visiting the annual Robin Hood Festival in Sherwood Forest, if you don't anticipate being able to make that particular trip, the episode also includes discussion about promoting wildlife diversity in Sherwood, the importance of the Robin Hood legend for the local community, and more!

To learn more about the Robin Hood Festival go to: visitsherwood.co.uk/home/robin-hood-festival-2024/

Or simply visitsherwood.co.uk for planning a trip any other time of year or for learning more about what remains of this ancient oak forest.

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Robin and Marian is pretty much unquestionably the most complex and thought-provoking Robin Hood film ever made. It has moments of lush cinematography and genuine insights about the human condition and explores the complexities of the relationships we have with our loved ones and with our own sense of identity.
At times it is also shockingly daft and distractingly bizarre costuming and directorial choices were made.
Fortunately, I am joined by Richard Hopkins-Lutz, Will Hoff, and Emily Rich to help make sense of this singular film.

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As of the recording of this episode, there are well over a dozen Robin Hood adaptations that have been examined as part of our Splitting Arrows series, a similar task could easily be undertaken for adaptations of the Story of Hong Gildong, the immensely popular bandit figure from Korea. Thanks to the translation of that story available now through Penguin Classics, the exploits of Hong Gildong are now more accessible to English-speaking audiences than ever before.
In this episode, I sit down with historian Dr. Minsoo Kang from the University of Missouri to discuss his translation of the Story of Hong Gildong, the universality of the noble outlaw, and what makes Hong Gildong a distinctly Korean figure.

The translated text with introduction and notes by Minsoo Kang:
The Story of Hong Gildong

Additional writing and study on Hong Gildong by Minsoo Kang:
Invincible and Righteous Outlaw: The Korean Hero Hong Gildong in Literature, History, and Culture

Minsoo Kang's new work of speculative fiction and storytelling:
The Melancholy of Untold History: A Novel

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I'm joined by Richard Hopkins-Lutz and Mike Nichols (with a special guest cameo by Allen Wright) to discuss the six part mini series "The Legend of Robin Hood" from 1975, a series that forced us to have a reckoning with just how we've been reviewing and discussing the Robin Hood media we've encountered up until this point!
We'll also get into a surprising amount of Blake's 7 discussion. Or perhaps not so surprising, if you're acquainted with the work of Paul Darrow...
Following Wolf's Head, this is our second take on a grittier Robin Hood, but our first that presents us with a King Richard I who isn't unambiguously heroic.

If you'd like to watch along, all six episodes can be found on YouTube:
The Legend of Robin Hood

To read more about the sexual preferences of King Richard and how they have been interpreted, and politicized through the centuries:
Rhodes, H. M., (2023) “Richard the Lionheart, Contested Queerness, and Crusading Memory”, Open Library of Humanities 9(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.9349

For the Blake's 7 podcast:
Straight Outta the Federation

For more from Allen Wright and Robin Hood:
https://www.boldoutlaw.com/


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This week I'm joined by a fiction writer who has delved deeply into the world of Robin Hood fiction through her work on the Robin of Sherwood audio dramas as well as the world of medieval outlaws through her academic studies and the Folville Chronicles, a historical fiction series centered around the very real Folville gang of the 14th century. Jennifer Ash's most recent release, though, takes place in the modern day. It is titled 'Manuscript Mysteries at the Robin Hood Club' and is a murder mystery centered around the discovery of a previously unknown Robin Hood ballad from the middle ages.
This book joins the novel 'Romancing Robin Hood', a romantic comedy she wrote under the pen name Jenny Kane, in the very select category of contemporary genre fiction with a Robin Hood-obsessed protagonists.
Jenny Kane/Jennifer Ash joins me to discuss writing cozy romances and cozy murder mysteries with a Robin Hood angle, as well as how she got involved writing licensed audio dramas for the Robin of Sherwood series.

For more on the works of Jenny Kane & Jennifer Ash: https://jennykane.co.uk/

For the Robin of Sherwood audio dramas: https://aukstudios.uk/?s=Robin+of+sherwood

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Jumping back in time to cover an overlooked short film from 1951. Since 'Tales of Robin Hood' is supposedly composed of episodes from a proposed television show, we brought back Ben Curley who had joined us for episode 32 when we covered Wolfshead, another attempted television show that saw a brief second life with a limited theatrical release.
The two would-be shows turned films are exceedingly different, but very much products of their times!

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Robin Hood has been a popular subject for plays dating back for at least 600 years and the production put on last year by Actor's Theater of Columbus exemplifies how modern authors continue to find ways to keep these characters and themes relevant, and entertaining, for audiences today. This episode includes my interview with playwright and director Philip Hickman and actors Adrianna Quinones and Sean Taylor. In addition, at the very end, I am joined by my Splitting Arrows co-star Richard Hopkins-Lutz as well as Maryanne Papke and Ari Papke to give our review of the production.

For more from Actor's Theater of Columbus, including this season's schedule: theactorstheatre.org

Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber

An introduction to earliest extant Robin Hood play 'Robyn Hod and the Shryff off Notyngham'

Previous Into the Greenwood interviews with playwrights:

Mike Nichols

Jeff Messer

Adam Szymkowicz

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