Robin Hood

Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves (Two-Disc Special Extended Edition)
$26.98
I remember when this movie came out. I went to watch it three times and that is really saying something coming from me. Well when I found this, I was like "Yea!!!!!!!!" Bought it and watched and LOVED all the new scenes that were originally deleted. It is the best Robin Hood even if several actors do not have English accents ;)

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire (Classic Reprint)
$9.98
It pains me that people are reading this without the illustrations. (Referring to Kindle edition).

Howard Pyle was the first person in the modern era to collect all the Robin Hood ballads that had come down from the midieval era and put them into a modern format, structured as stories and so forth. Essentially every version of Robin Hood in the past century has drawn on Howard Pyle's Robin Hood as its major source, and reading this book is the best way to understand why the minor characters in (for example) Kevin Costner's "Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves" are named things like "Will Scarlet" or "Much the Miller's Son."

I was given this book to read as a child, and it was and still is one of my all-time favorites (although I always avoided reading the final chapter, which Pyle even warns his readers they may want to do). The elevated, pseudo-elizabethan style even helped me later on -- when I got to Shakespeare in school, the language was easy for me, because I'd been reading Howard Pyle since I was eight.

The problem with this ebook version is that it doesn't contain the illustrations, though. And that's simply unforgivable. Howard Pyle is today better known as an illustrator than as a writer. He was the art teacher who taught people like Arthur Rackham and N.C. Wyeth. His illustrations are immensely rich and detailed, and as full of period accuracy and background research as his writing was. It's an unforgivable shame to miss them.

Versions of this book can be found online free with illustrations. Don't bother with this version, as it doesn't have them. Reading this book without the illustrations is like taking an oscar-winning film and just listening to the sound with the screen blacked out. You can do it, but why?

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (Extended Version) [Blu-ray]
$28.99
I remember when this movie came out. I went to watch it three times and that is really saying something coming from me. Well when I found this, I was like "Yea!!!!!!!!" Bought it and watched and LOVED all the new scenes that were originally deleted. It is the best Robin Hood even if several actors do not have English accents ;)

Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves
$19.96
I remember when this movie came out. I went to watch it three times and that is really saying something coming from me. Well when I found this, I was like "Yea!!!!!!!!" Bought it and watched and LOVED all the new scenes that were originally deleted. It is the best Robin Hood even if several actors do not have English accents ;)