Robin Hood collection

Steal from the rich to give to the poor: the motto has crossed the centuries, from medieval English ballads to the screen, and Robin Hood remains the cheekiest archer in pop culture! In 1973, Wolfgang Reitherman brought the legend to Disney in a bestiary inherited from the Roman de Renart, where the outlaw becomes a cunning fox who taunts the Sheriff of Nottingham and Prince John, a greedy lion who sucks his thumb as soon as his mother is mentioned. Around him move Little John the easygoing bear, Friar Tuck the big-hearted badger, the lovely Maid Marian and the minstrel rooster Alan-a-Dale, narrator with his lute. Makeshift disguises, gold spirited away from the castle coffers, a second arrow loosed in the middle of the tournament to split the sheriff's own: the legend is as much about the good prank as about the act of justice. Sherwood has never laid down its bow, and the ballad of England's most impudent fox carries on over on the shelves, from illustrated novels to mischievous figures!