Delightful to be Robbed
E.S. Turner: Stand and deliver, 9 May 2002
Outlaws and Highwaymen: The Cult of the Robber in England from the Middle Ages to the 19th century
by Gillian Spraggs.
Pimlico, 372 pp., £12.50, November 2001,0 7126 6479 3 Show More
by Gillian Spraggs.
Pimlico, 372 pp., £12.50, November 2001,
“... The myth of Robin Hood was well established by the time the sparkish Prince Harry, the future Henry V, was engaged in mischievous highway robberies, possibly little more than royal horseplay, along with that other ‘gentleman robber’ Falstaff (as unreliably described in Shakespeare’s ... ”