Scott directed a revisionist adaptation of Robin Hood, which starred Russell Crowe as Robin Hood and Cate Blanchett as Maid Marian.

Little John, Much the Miller's Son and Will Scarlet ( as Will " Scarlok " or " Scathelocke ") all appear, although not yet Maid Marian or Friar Tuck.

It is commonly stated as fact that Maid Marian and a jolly friar ( at least partly identifiable with Friar Tuck ) entered the legend through the May Games.

) The theory supplies Robin Hood with a wife, Matilda, thought to be the origin of Maid Marian, and Hunter also conjectured that the author of the Gest may have been the religious poet Richard Rolle ( 1290 – 1349 ), who lived in the village of Hampole in Barnsdale.

Robin Hood and Maid Marian

It is from the association with the May Games that Robin's romantic attachment to Maid Marian ( or Marion ) apparently stems.

Both Robin and Marian were certainly associated with May Day festivities in England ( as was Friar Tuck ), but these may have been originally two distinct types of performance – Alexander Barclay in his Ship of Fools, writing in c. 1500, refers to " some merry fytte of Maid Marian or else of Robin Hood " – but the characters were brought together.

To A Friend and Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote a play The Foresters, or Robin Hood and Maid Marian, which was presented with incidental music by Sir Arthur Sullivan in 1892.

The 1976 British-American film Robin and Marian, starring Sean Connery as Robin Hood and Audrey Hepburn as Maid Marian, portrays the figures in later years after Robin has returned from service with Richard the Lionheart in a foreign crusade and Marian has gone into seclusion in a nunnery.

Specific sites linked to Robin Hood include the Major Oak tree, claimed to have been used by him as a hideout, Robin Hood's Well, located near Newstead Abbey ( within the boundaries of Sherwood Forest ), and the Church of St. Mary in the village of Edwinstowe, where Robin and Maid Marian are historically thought to have wed. To reinforce this belief, the University of Nottingham in 2010 has begun the Nottingham Caves Survey with the goal " to increase the tourist potential of these sites ".

* Maid Marian

Wright was offered the role of Maid Marian in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, but turned it down because she was pregnant.

In 1989 he created the children's comedy TV series Maid Marian and her Merry Men, a loose retelling of the legend of Robin Hood in which he appeared as the Sheriff of Nottingham.

Robin goes alone to see Prince John at Gisbourne's castle and announces to John's assembled supporters and a contemptuous Maid Marian that he will do all in his power to oppose John and restore Richard to his rightful place.

Among Robin's " guests " are Gisbourne, the cowardly Sheriff of Nottingham, and Maid Marian.

He suggests to Prince John that he announce an archery tournament, with the grand prize a golden arrow to be presented by Maid Marian, knowing that Robin will be unable to resist the challenge.

Richard is restored to the throne ; he exiles his brother, pardons the outlaws, returns Robin's earldom and ' orders ' him to marry Maid Marian.

* Olivia de Havilland as Lady " Maid " Marian Fitzwalter

Maid Marian never had that trouble in Sherwood Forest.

* Robin Hood: Robin Hood, Little John, Maid Marian, Lady Kluck, Friar Tuck, Prince John, Sir Hiss, the Sheriff of Notingham, Nutsy, Trigger, Allan-A-Dale, the Rhino Guards, the Captain of the Guard, Toby Turtle, Skippy Bunny, Sis Bunny, Tagalong Bunny, and Mother Rabbit.

After appearing with Joe E. Brown in Alibi Ike and James Cagney in The Irish in Us, she played opposite Errol Flynn in such highly popular films as Captain Blood, The Charge of the Light Brigade ( 1936 ), and as Maid Marian to Flynn's Robin Hood in The Adventures of Robin Hood ( 1938 ).

Famous writers and composers who have created works about her include: William Shakespeare ( Henry VI, Part 1 ), Voltaire ( The Maid of Orleans ), Friedrich Schiller ( The Maid of Orleans ), Giuseppe Verdi ( Giovanna d ' Arco ), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ( The Maid of Orleans ), Mark Twain ( Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc ), Arthur Honegger ( Jeanne d ' Arc au bûcher ), Jean Anouilh ( L ' Alouette ), Bertolt Brecht ( Saint Joan of the Stockyards ), George Bernard Shaw ( Saint Joan ), Maxwell Anderson ( Joan of Lorraine ), and Leonard Cohen ( Joan of Arc ).

For this he was thrown into Beauchamp Tower, and after a year's liberation again imprisoned, in December, 1533, on the charges of disseminating the prophecies of the Maid of Kent, encouraging the queen " obstinately to persist in her wilful opinion against the same divorce and separation ", and maintaining her right to the title of queen.

* Maid, Matron or Man of Honor: The title and position held by a bride's chief attendant, typically her closest friend or sibling.

Elizabeth Woodville, future Queen of England as wife of her husband's rival King Edward IV, allegedly served as her Maid of Honour.

His daughter Anne became the first wife of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford in 1571 ; she served as a Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth before her marriage.

The green harp flag in its 18th to 19th century design, showing the " Maid of Erin " as the harp's pillar, her wing forming the harp's neck, and the inscription Erin go Bragh (" Ireland forever "). According to an American journalist covering the war with Mexico:

In May 1289, there was uncertainty about the future of Margaret, Maid of Norway, and her father sent ambassadors to Edward I of England.

Regretting that she had left home to be a Maid of Honour, Cavendish informed her mother she wanted to leave the court.

Although no date was recorded, the marriage was announced only to the Duchess of York, and a small circle of friends, so that Sarah could keep her court position as Maid of Honour.

The two entertainers offer to perform the song of The Merryman and his Maid: it tells of a lovelorn merryman who is jilted by a maiden in favour of an arrogant lord, but the latter rejects her, and she returns on her knees to the merryman to beg for his love, and all ends happily.

As well, under the pseudonym of " Mary Singleton, Spinster ," she edited thirty-seven issues of her own weekly periodical, Old Maid ( 1755 – 1756 ).

This early period of the town's history was humorously depicted in the children's television show, Maid Marian and her Merry Men, where it was largely portrayed as a mass of mud.

* Maid Marian and her Merry Men, a BBC children's television series partially set in Worksop

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Hopkins had well-publicized fights with her arch-enemy Bette Davis ( Davis was having an affair with Hopkins ' husband at the time, Anatole Litvak ), when they co-starred in their two films The Old Maid ( 1939 ) and Old Acquaintance ( 1943 ).

He then directed her in her first major film role in La Cieca di Sorrento ( The Blind Maid of Sorrento ) in 1934.

He named her Níniel, " Maid of Tears ", and took her to Ephel Brandir.

In the 1990s CBBC comedy show Maid Marian and her Merry Men, Guy — played by Ramsay Gilderdale — is the nephew of Prince John, and is portrayed in the series as an overgrown mother's boy.

He has also played the parts of Barrington in Maid Marian and Her Merry Men ; Byron Lucifer in The Tomorrow People ; and Milton Wordsworth, the original presenter of The Story Makers on CBeebies.

Impressed with the script, Home asked Davies to write the second episode, and when Tony Robinson decided to take a break from producing Maid Marian and Her Merry Men, a slot opened up in the Children's BBC schedules for late 1991 and Home decided to use Dark Season to fill it, commissioning Davies to write the remaining episodes of the serial.

They also performed The London Prodigal, The Merry Devil of Edmonton, and The Fair Maid of Bristow, the last a rarity in that it is a Chamberlain's play that has never been attributed in any part to Shakespeare.

* Maid Marian was the lead character in Tony Robinson's BBC children's comedy Maid Marian and her Merry Men.

He is accompanied by Will Scarlet ( Sacha Bennett ), Friar Tuck ( Crispin Harris ), Maid Marian ( Kate Moss ) and his band of Merry Men.

She once again starred alongside Tony Robinson in a Series 3 episode of Maid Marian and her Merry Men.

Howard Lew Lewis ( born 21 August 1941 ) is an English comedian and actor, best known for his roles in comedy series including Maid Marian and her Merry Men and Brush Strokes.

As an actor, Lewis is probably most associated in the British public consciousness with his role as Rabies, one of the Merry Men in the award-winning 1989 BBC Children's television comedy series Maid Marian and her Merry Men.

* Red appears as Maid Marion in Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and his Merry Mouse.

In the children's comedy Maid Marian and her Merry Men ( 1989 – 94 ) the character is parodied as a wide boy called Much the Mini-Mart Manager's Son.

He initially appears as a treacherous character, but later finds redemption when he helps the Merry Men rescue Maid Marian and several others from the Sheriff of Nottingham.

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Maid Marian and her Merry Men saw Billingham cast as Gary, a dim-but-lovable guard in the employ of the Sheriff of Nottingham, charged with keeping the peace ( or causing the violence ) in the village of Worksop, and hunting down Maid Marian ( Kate Lonergan ) and her band of " freedom fighters ".

Initially inspired by the classic Asterix comics and the television serial Maid Marian and her Merry Men, it has taken on influences ranging from the work of Marten Toonder to Cerebus and the novels of Terry Pratchett or the graphic novels of François Bourgeon.