Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography
- ISBN-10
- 0801438853
- ISBN-13
- 9780801438851
- Series
- Robin Hood
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 247
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Author
- Stephen Knight
Description
One of the world's foremost authorities on the only mythical person in the Dictionary of National Biography delves deeply into the Robin Hood story, probing ballads, epitaphs on old gravestones, and Disney films in search of the man behind the legend. (Mythology & Folklore)
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