Marian’s father wants her to marry someone better than Edward, and he has his eye on Robin. Brewer, Cambridge; The London Stage, Part 5, 1776-1800, ed. After the meal, he asked her to marry him, and she agreed. The pantomime concluded with a ‘Grand Scene’ representing ‘The Triumph of Archery’: fabulous, ancient, British and modern. While Maid Marian had already been associated with Robin Hood in the plays for a number of years by the time the ballad Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor and Marriage was commissioned the ballad gives Robin's wife the name Clorinda though she retains some similarities to the traditional Marian by being an archer and shepherdess she is not a swordsman while Marian was traditionally one of the best swordsmen in the tales. The highlight of the 1730 ‘comic opera’ Robin Hood (‘An Opera, As it is Perform’d at Lee’s and Harper’s Great Theatrical Booth In Bartholomew-Fair’) was the farcical scene in which the Pinner of Wakefield chased Little John under the table and into a cradle for seducing his wife. Her name is sometimes used as one of Maid Marian's aliases since Marian has for centuries been recognized by the public as Robin's love interest. Clorinda survives in some later stories as an alias of Marian. 5. MacNally announced in the preface to the printed edition that his plot derived from ballad material, he could have found most of the material in Thomas Percy’s 1765 Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, or Thomas Evans’s 1777 Old Ballads, but his libretto is not really derived from the traditional sources. Many familiar Robin Hood ballad characters and plot devices appear in Merry Sherwood along with some variations: Robin receives a magic horn from the Witch of Nottingham Well, who also assigns Harlequin to be his guide. There is however, some recognizable elements; Robin is the Earl of Huntington in exile, there is an encounter with a tinker, who ends up joining the band, and Little John and Friar Tuck make their first entrance on stage fighting with quarter staves. Brewer, Cambridge; Playbill for Merry Sherwood, or, Harlequin Forester, reprinted in The London Stage, 4 January 1796. There are several other plots with no ballad sources; Allen a Dale’s sister Stella is torn between her two lovers, Little John and Will Scarlet, and Friar Tuck (actually Baron Fitzherbert, Clorinda’s uncle and Angelina’s father) in disguise, has come to the forest to spy on Robin Hood, turn the Merry Men against him, and unlease the Bishop of Hereford’s 500 archers against him. It recounts Robin Hood's adventures hunting and a romance with Clorinda, the queen of the shepherdess, a heroine who did not prove able to displace Maid Marian as his sweet heart. Robin has a romantic interest in Clorinda of the ballad ‘Robin Hood’s Birth, Breeding, Valor, and Marriage’, but the traditional material ends here. Robin Hood Musicals in Eighteenth Century London, Linda V. Troost, in Robin Hood in Popular Culture, first published 2000, D.S. Little John amused them there, but Robin Hood is adopted by his uncle the squire. It is more in the vein of Adam de la Halle’s musical pastourelle Robin and Marion from the thirteenth century. The main character was always a clever clown with an assistant named harlequin and there was neither principal boy nor dame. The contents include the rhymes or ballads as well as plays and songs. Clorinda's tale also differs from Marian's in how quickly she and Robin agree to get married while with Marian it took a while for their relationship to reach that point and traditionally she insists they put off the marriage itself until Robin earns his pardon. Accompanying her is Cousin Angelina, disguised as a male pilgrim, and Angelian’s maid Annette, is also in male costume. She shot one, impressing him, and he invited her to feast with him. (3) The comic opera afterpiece Marian by Frances Brooke, opened at Covent Garden in 1788 and ran for forty-one performances. The wedding took place not under the greenwood tree as we might imagine, but in the village of Tutbury, Staffordshire, on the occasion of … Near the end of the pantomime, Robin Hood dies, but fortunately he undergoes ‘renovation’ at the hands of the Witch of Nottingham Well, and all is well again. On the eve of his marriage to Clorinda, Robin is banished from court and Clorinda … The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men, https://robin-hood.fandom.com/wiki/Clorinda?oldid=1013. She manages to escape and joins Robin in exile in Sherwood Forest. "Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor, and Marriage" is Child ballad 149. He met Clorinda, the queen of the shepherdess, also out to hunt a deer. The Robin in this production is not an outlaw, but a lad who runs a lucrative ferry business, owns several acres of land and four cows, and has a vote in the country. While Maid Marian had already been associated with Robin Hood in the plays for a number of years by the time the ballad Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor and Marriage was commissioned the ballad gives Robin's wife the name Clorinda though she retains some similarities to the traditional Marian by being an archer and shepherdess she is not a swordsman while Marian was traditionally one of the best … "Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor, and Marriage" is Child ballad 149. In the eighteenth century the outlaw hero appeared on stage in a series of comic operas and farces. There was no spoken dialogue, only singing dancing, and mime, with some performers doing vocal characters and others specializing in the pantomimic ones. ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, THE, Olivia de Havilland, 1938 Robin Hood’s sweetheart in Robin Hood’s Birth, Breeding, Valor, and Marriage (Child Ballad 149), is named as “Clorinda the Queen of the Shepherdesses,” Marian’s alias in later stories. Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor and Marriage. Clorinda is Robin’s betrothed and niece of Baron Fitzherbert. C.B. The Pedigree, Education, and Marriage of Robin Hood, with Clorinda, Queen of Titbury Feast 1723 Robert Jones Music (included with the text of "In Sherwood Liude Stout Robin Hood") Clorinda is Robin’s betrothed and niece of Baron Fitzherbert. Robin Hood Musicals in Eighteenth Century London, Linda V. Troost, in Robin Hood in Popular Culture, first published 2000, D.S. Robin Hood went with his parents to his uncle's Gamwel Hall. 1. Brewer, Cambridge; Lorraine McMullen, An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke, Vancouver, 1983, pp. Robin has a romantic interest in Clorinda of the ballad ‘Robin Hood’s Birth, Breeding, Valor, and Marriage’, but the traditional material ends here. At some later stage (apparently, the continuity isn't clear) Robin Hood set out into Sherwood with Little John. 2. This site contains extensive information on Robin Hood. Robin Hood Musicals in Eighteenth Century London, Linda V. Troost, in Robin Hood in Popular Culture, first published 2000, D.S. In this production Robin is also the singer of a popular song entitled ‘As blithe as the linnet sings in the green wood’. 3. The British pantomime of the eighteenth century was different from those performed today. Archivists at Nottinghamshire County Council have on file in its Valentine’s archive records a ballad in which Hood’s love interest before Maid Marian is said to be Clorinda, the Queen of the Shepherdesses. We meet the Sheriff of Nottingham, the Prince of Aragon, Maid Marian – now daughter of the Sheriff of Nottingham – the tinker, the pindar, the tanner, the beggar, the curtal friar, Will Scarlet and Allen a Dale. How did he die in the early tales or ballads, and who was the real Robin Hood, and was the original setting in Sherwood Forest or Barnsdale, and who was the original Maid Marian. Drury Lane revived it in 1813, with additional music by John Addison, and it was still being performed in Bath in the 1820s. She meets Robin and becomes engaged to him within the same day after flirting with him and impressing him with her archery skill. The marriage was celebrated. (2) Most popular of all was Leonard MacNally’s comic opera, Robin Hood or Sherwood Forest, with music by William Shield. [3] A feature of interest is that the author is apparently unaware of the "Earl of Huntingdon" tradition. The source suggests that Robin married a lady called Clorinda on the fifteenth of August, sometime during the reign of Henry lll. 208-11. Well-known settings also appear in tableaux: Wakefield, Nottingham, Robin Hood’s Bower, Fountains Abbey, Barnsdale, and Kirksley Monastery. Robin Hood, An Opera, printed for J. Watts, London, 1730; Rymes of Robyn Hood, Dobson and Taylor, p. 45. The plot was a string of about twenty self-contained, topsy-turvy incidents instead of a coherent whole, with spectacle, scenic transformations, and elaborate costumes the most important elements. On the way, eight yeomen tried to steal their deer. [1] It recounts Robin Hood's adventures hunting and a romance with Clorinda, the queen of the shepherdess, a heroine who did not prove able to displace Maid Marian as his sweet heart.[2]. Robin was killed by either the betrayal of his own prioress cousin sometimes with her lover Sir Roger of Doncaster, by a "faithless friar" as per A True Tale of Robin Hood, or according to Robin Hood and the Valiant Knight by a monk after being badly wounded by the knight Sir William.