Show Plot Robin Hood, the Musical

Authors: Composer: Reginald de Koven, Librettist & Lyricist: Harry B. Smith

Time Period: 12th-century (approx. 1190s) England during the reign of King Richard the Lionheart

Summary:

The most famous classic musical version of this legend is the 1890 comic opera Robin Hood that follows Robert, Earl of Huntington, who is outlawed by the sheriff, forms the Merry Men in Sherwood Forest, and unites with Maid Marian.