In all, Robin Hood has featured in around 50 live-action films, 15 TV series and 15 cartoons. Five were made in the early silent period before Allan Dwan’s 1922 Douglas Fairbanks vehicle set a ...

That period was also the time that probably saw the birth of the English ballad – and it is through one of those ballads that it’s possible to get a glimpse of the potential proto-Robin-Hood.