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The revelation flies in the face of Kevin Costner's portrayal of the outlaw in "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves", and suggests that the title of Mel Brooks's motion picture "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" may have been closer to the mark.
The reassessment is based on studies of the 14th-century ballads of Robin Hood, the earliest known accounts of his deeds, which detail his relationships with his "merrie men", especially Little John and Will Scarlet.
Stephen Knight, professor of English literature at Cardiff University, said the ballads, the first and most authoritative accounts of Hood's deeds, had clear homoerotic overtones.
He said: "Robin Hood and his me One of the most fun things about history is asking: “what if?” That can cause all kinds of chaos. Additionally, there’s no quicker way to freak people out than to interrogate the sexuality of a historical figure or at least portray them in some way diverse than the idealized picture of that person. There are fewer iconic characters than Robin Hood. So when you ask, “was Robin Hood gay?” You’re pretty much asking for trouble. Yet, writer NB Dixon has done just that. In a novel series of Kindle novels, beginning with The Heir of Locksley, he (or she, cause we don’t know undertake we?) examines not only what we know about the legendary outlaw, but the relationships with his band of “Merry Men.” Now, I could make jokes ( What, the emerald green tights weren’t a giveaway? Okay, sorry. I’m done acting enjoy a 12 year old now.) but if Alexander the Great, Richard the Lion Heart and other historical figures haven’t already proven that having unconventional sexuality and existence a badass aren’t mutually exclusive, I don’t know what will. Tell us a little more about yourself. I spot you write incognito, so we execute Robin Hood's been taking a bit of a knock lately. 2009 has seen the closure of Nottingham's premiere Robin Hood tourist attraction, The Tales of Robin Hood, and in June the BBC decided not to re-commission their Saturday evening Robin Hood television series. But you can't keep a fine hero down and he's back in the news thanks to a guided walk in Nottingham called the Lgbtq+ Robin Hood tour. It examines the alleged homosexual origins of the man and has been researched by Nottingham historian Tony Scupham-Bilton. Help playing audio/video Tony believes Robin's source dates back 700 years. It revolves around the bond of two authentic life characters - Sir William Neville, the constable of Nottingham castle, and Sir John Clanvowe, a poet. According to the historian the two were as good as hitched, even though Sir William had a wife, Elizabeth. "The two men were soldiers who'd fought in the One Hundred Years War. They formed a seal friendship. It's commonly accepted now that they were a gay couple." Did Robin really prefer Petty John to Marian? As a writer, Sir John Clanvowe was always looking for inspiration. "One The Sunday Times story boiled this down to Was Robin Hood Gay ? There was a fine colour pic of ultra-handsome Errol Flynn and an astutely selected illustration by Howard Pyle, the very influential American illustrator of 1883, showing Robin and Friar Tuck playing horsey in the water. The chat focused on the sharp shock of the gay charge, but also, as suits a solemn Sunday paper, had research on show: the distinguished Barrie Dobson, Professor at Cambridge, said that homosexuality in the medieval period was not necessarily as repressed as you might think, and there was a nice round-up from the present Earl of Huntingdon saying goodness gracious me. As I had expected there was fall-out. My wife trained as a journalist on a Rupert Murdoch paper in Australia, and we have some life of how a new story can suddenly start a media feeding frenzy, but this was bigger than both of us. I got back from my tour-preparing trip on a Sunday to find that a several wily journalists had got my number from security at my university. I wonder what they think security means. First up were the BBC, awake to the world as ever. One call was from Radio 5, the brainless lighRobin Hood
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