The story explores how much of our personality is nature vs. Isabelle’s adventures lead her to a band of “Merry Men,” including a new generation of recruits. But her travels don’t exactly go as planned. Imprisoned for reasons she doesn’t understand, her mother is able to hastily free her with just enough time to give her instructions to travel through the woods for three days to an inn to ask for a man named Thomas who can help her. Isabelle’s identity has been discovered by “The Wolf,” a powerful scorned enemy of Robin Hood who is out to destroy the outlaw who robs from the rich to give to the poor. It’s something that she’s about to find out as the book begins in just about as exciting a way possible. But unlike Kinghtley’s character Gwyn in that film, Isabelle doesn’t know about her father.

There have been other stories about Robin Hood’s offspring, including the 2001 The Wonderful World of Disney made for TV movie Princess of Thieves starring Kiera Knightley. They’re doing everything they can for the survival of their only daughter as the story of Hood starts. Still an outlaw, he and Marian have been separated for nearly twenty years with his beloved bride in hiding at a convent in Kirklees, raising their daughter Isabelle in safety and seclusion. Rather than retelling the all too familiar tale, Hood is more or less a sequel, jumping forward in time after the events of Robin Hood’s defeat of Prince John and the consequences of that act. The latest adaptation takes the character back to the literary world in Hood by Jenny Elder Moke from Disney’s Hyperion book label. Since the dawn of film, there have been nearly fifty film adaptations and over a dozen television series, all inspired by one outlaw who may or may not have been a real person.

Ballads in the 14th century beget plays in the 15th century, leading to books in the 18th and 19th centuries. Like some of the best fairy tales, the legend of Robin Hood has inspired creative minds for centuries.

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