Others, at the same time, are enjoying its modern updating and creative invention.
Viewers who do not approve of the dramatic licence taken by the series’ makers draw attention to a number of issues that are modern-day interventions rather than being true to medieval England.
If Little John was of African descent, then something extraordinary would be happening today – instead of the Robin Hood legend we would be talking of the Little John one, so exceptional would be the scenario. We would not be watching films and TV series on Robin Hood, but on Little John. It is inconceivable to have such a character not being one of the most famous people of the Middle Ages, comparable to that of Joan of Arc in France.
As one would expect, at no point is any reference ever made to his racial ethnicity. The extreme rarity of people of colour in 12th-century England would have immediately drawn the overwhelming attention of writers had Little John been black.
Pockets of paganism and folk religion would have survived, but any found by the church or monarch would have been destroyed by English kings long before the Normans (very much the bad guys in the programme) arrived.
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I'm an expert historian and here's how accurate Robin Hood on MGM+ is to real eventsRobin Hood star teases potential season 2 as Sean Bean series approaches finale next monthHow, then, in purely historical terms, can it be that viewers who have no problem with these modern embellishments are equally right in their opinions?
This is because the story of Robin Hood was, from the start, designed as entertainment.
By the time of the earliest surviving Robin Hood tales in the late-15th century, the legend was already at least two centuries old. It is anyone’s guess how much the tale had already changed over that time. Notably, neither Maid Marian nor Friar Tuck were in the first stories, being added only later.
View oEmbed on the source websiteBy the 20th century, Robin was re-imagined in many forms, two notably being as an anti-communist freedom fighter of the Cold War and the DC Comics superhero Green Arrow from the 1940s.
While there are many fascinating historical clues about Robin Hood, he has always been an infinitely adaptable character from literature and culture. And so he remains today.
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