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In the 2001 Disney film Princess of Thieves, Robin Hood and Maid Marian are the parents of a daughter, the eponymous 'princess' played by Keira Knightley. In the 2006 film Robin Hood: Quest for the King, Maid Marian is voiced by Jo Wyatt.
In one novel (The Outlaws of Sherwood by Robin McKinley), it's Marian disguised as Robin Hood who shoots in the famous archery contest for the golden arrow. One young adult novel ( The Forestwife by Theresa Tomlinson ) says Marian is the "Forestwife", a pagan priestess with magical healing powers.
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The love interest to Robin of Loxley Marian was an interesting character with a varied past and many versions of her tale, sometimes a sheltered noblewoman but originally a skilled fighter capable defeating her lover at the end of a long sword fight. She swore off marrying him until he had gained a King's pardon.
Marian was born the daughter of nobility in some ballads but originally she had a more humble origin as a shepherdess. Sometimes she and Robin knew each other since childhood but other tales have them meet as adults. When she is portrayed as a noble Richard at the Lee is sometimes her father.
At what point Marian and Robin met is variable but her oath to marry her love, instead of a man of her family's choosing, is on the condition that he first be pardoned. Her most well known act was joining the Merry Men in the forest after disguising herself as a male page and defeating Robin in a duel in during which he was unaware of her identity....
Marian married Robin immediately following his pardon by the King just as she had promised to do while he was living as an outlaw and was widowed many years later when Robin was murdered by his cousin. She is not said to have left him when he left the king's service and returned to living like an outlaw in the woods.
The name of Robin's alternate wife Clorinda from the circa 1660s ballad Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor and Marriage, which takes many of its elements from outside the Robin hood tradition, is sometimes used by Marian as an alias.
Ballads:•Robin Hood and Maid Marian
•Robin Hood and Queen Katherine
•Robin Hood's Golden Prize
•Maid Marian
Plays:•1641 The Sad Shepherd, or A Tale of Robin Hood by Ben Jonson (incomplete, first published 4 years after author's death)
Literature:•1822 Maid Marian (1822) by Thomas Love Peacock
Maid Marian is a vixen and one of the two deuteragonists (alongside Little John) of Disney's 1973 animated feature film Robin Hood. She is the love interest and later wife of the title character. She based on the character from the Robin Hood legend of the same name.
Mar 10, 2024 · Relegated to a dainty, chaste and highborn maiden, she became defined almost completely by her relationship to Robin. Their tale became a respectable Victorian love story, complete with a happy ending when the pair were married in St Mary’s Church, Edwinstowe, by King Richard Lionheart.
When Robin returns from crusade with two Arabs, Suleiman and his dancing-girl daughter, Marian begins to be jealous of Leila with Robin, but she vanishes to an orientalist fate as Prince John's mistress. In later action Marian is taken prisoner and rescued when Robin shoots a silken ladder into her cell.
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Feb 8, 2022 · Anthony Munday brings Marian into his play, ‘The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntingdon’, in 1598. Her name is really Matilda, daughter of the Earl of Fitzwalter, but she takes the name Marian when she follows her love into the forest.
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