Robin Hood Rescuing Will Stutly

Traditional song

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Robin Hood Rescuing Will Stutly (Roud 3957, Child 143) is a traditional English-language folk song about Robin Hood.

Synopsis

Robin Hood is brought news that the Sheriff of Nottingham surprised Will Stutely, and though he killed two of the Sheriff's men, he was captured. They set out to rescue him, confirm the story from a palmer, and arrive as he is being brought out. Will Stutly offers to fight the sheriff's men, with his bare hands, if need be, but the sheriff is resolved to hang him. Little John jumps out to cut his bonds and give him a sword. Robin's men rouse up, and the sheriff and his men flee, and Robin's men go back to Sherwood.

Influences

Francis James Child believed this to be derived from Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires.

Adaptations

The entire tale was used by Howard Pyle in his Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, often with no more changes than rendering the verse as prose. An anonymous "brave young man" was identified as David of Doncaster, as part of his development of that character.

References

Francis James Child, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, "Robin Hood Rescuing Will Stutly"
Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires (Child 140)

External links

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Robin Hood

Universe

Characters

Main	Robin Hood Maid Marian The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield Sheriff of Nottingham Guy of Gisbourne Prince John Bishop of Hereford Richard at the Lee King Richard
Merry Men	Little John Much the Miller's Son Will Scarlet Arthur a Bland David of Doncaster Will Stutely Friar Tuck Alan-a-Dale Gilbert Whitehand

Settings

Media

Screen

Film	Robin Hood (1912) Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood (1922) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) The Bandit of Sherwood Forest (1946) The Prince of Thieves (1948) Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950) Tales of Robin Hood (1951) The Story of Robin Hood (1952) The Men of Sherwood Forest (1954) Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960) The Triumph of Robin Hood (1962) A Challenge for Robin Hood (1967) Long Live Robin Hood (1971) Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood (1973) The Arrows of Robin Hood (1975) Robin and Marian (1976) Aaj Ka Robin Hood (1988) O Mistério de Robin Hood (1990) Robin Hood (1991) Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) Robin Hood (2010) Robin Hood (2018)
TV	Robin Hood (1953) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955) The Legend of Robin Hood (1968) The Legend of Robin Hood (1975) Robin of Sherwood (1984) The New Adventures of Robin Hood (1997) Robin Hood (2006) Robyn Hood (2023)
Animated	Robin Hood Makes Good (1939) Rabbit Hood (1949) Robin Hood Daffy (1958) Robin Hoodwinked (1958) Rocket Robin Hood (1966) Robin Hood (1973) Robin Hood (1990) Young Robin Hood (1991) Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse (2012) Sherwood (2019)
Parody	About Seven Brothers (1968) When Things Were Rotten (1975) The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood (1984) Maid Marian and Her Merry Men (1989) Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
Alternate settings	Mexicali Rose (1939 film) Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964 film) Naan Sigappu Manithan (1985 Tamil film) Nyayam Meere Cheppali (1985 Telugu film) Robin of Locksley (1996 film) Catch Me Now (2008 Chinese TV series) Alyas Robin Hood (2016 Philippines TV series)

Popular culture

Child ballads

8: Erlinton
102: Willie and Earl Richard's Daughter
103: Rose the Red and White Lily
115: Robyn and Gandeleyn
117: A Gest of Robyn Hode
118: Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne
119: Robin Hood and the Monk
120: Robin Hood's Death
121: Robin Hood and the Potter
123: Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar
124: The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield
126: Robin Hood and the Tanner
127: Robin Hood and the Tinker
128: Robin Hood Newly Revived
129: Robin Hood and the Prince of Aragon
130: Robin Hood and the Scotchman
131: Robin Hood and the Ranger
132: The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood
136: Robin Hood's Delight
138: Robin Hood and Allan-a-Dale
139: Robin Hood's Progress to Nottingham
140: Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires
141: Robin Hood Rescuing Will Stutly
142: Little John a Begging
143: Robin Hood and the Bishop
144: Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford
145: Robin Hood and Queen Katherine
146: Robin Hood's Chase
147: Robin Hood's Golden Prize
148: The Noble Fisherman
151: The King's Disguise, and Friendship with Robin Hood
152: Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow
153: Robin Hood and the Valiant Knight
154: A True Tale of Robin Hood

Stage / theatre

The Downfall and The Death of Robert Earl of Huntington (1598 and 1601 plays)
The Merrie Men of Sherwood Forest (1871 operetta)
Robin Hood (1890 De Koven opera)
The Foresters (1892 play)
Twang!! (1965 musical parody)
Robin Hood (1934 Tippett opera)
Robin Hood (1998 ballet)
Robin des Bois (2013 musical)

Video games

Robin of Sherwood: The Touchstones of Rhiannon (1985)
Robin of the Wood (1985)
Super Robin Hood (1986)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1991)
Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood (1991)
Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood (2002)
Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown (2003)
Volume (2015)
Hood: Outlaws & Legends (2021)

Literature

Ivanhoe (1819)
Maid Marian (1822)
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883)
Bows against the Barons (1934)
The Once and Future King (1958)
The Outlaws of Sherwood (1988)
Through a Dark Mist (1991)
Lady of the Forest (1992)
In the Shadow of Midnight (1994)
The Last Arrow (1997)
Lady of Sherwood (1999)
King Raven Trilogy (2006)

Music

Legend (1984 soundtrack)
Robin Hood (2006 soundtrack)
"Love" (song)
"Not in Nottingham" (song)
"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" (song)
The Tale of Gamelyn

Alan Dale

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King's Man (2011)
The Outlaw Chronicles (2012-2016)

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