Is Robin Hood Awake?
[N Sherwood, Sir Alfred Noyes expresses doubts as to whether Robin Hood is still around or no, but radio’s constant listeners know Robin, particularly in his Basil Rathbone incarnation, as an old soldier. Last Sunday in place of the ZB Gazette, 2ZB listeners had half-an-hour of good blood-and-thunder Sherwood forestry, at the end of which Robin Hood was forced to belie his traditional modesty of character and betray the age of the feature by pointing himself out as one of the first to fight for freedom, and urging us to do the same. Fortunately we have won the war by other means, for it is difficult to see just what lessons, moral or material, we can learn from the adventures of Robin Hood. No, we must regard the moral as being as extraneous as those favoured by the Duchess, and enjoy the story regardless. And any attempt to see the characters in terms of modern life is doomed to failure. Né modern maid could be half so coy as Maid Marian, no modern hero half so insouciant as Robin. On the other hand the group sentiments are pure 20th Century Rotary, and the choruses and solos ("Hey, Robin, Jolly’ Jolly Robin," "Ho, Jolly Jenkins," "Greensleeves"), are obviously rendered by those nurtured in the hearty traditions of the glee-clubs of the 1930's,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 408, 18 April 1947, Page 8
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225Is Robin Hood Awake? New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 408, 18 April 1947, Page 8
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