Robin Hood, the well-known hero of the poor who robs from the rich, has been the subject of numerous poems, stories, theatre shows, movies, and television series. Some stay close to legend, but others stray like the Disney version where Robin Hood is a talking, cartoon fox. Mel Brooks turns him in to an idiot (of course), and in 1967 someone thought it was a good idea to set the entire story
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It’s a weird day when a presidential tweet reminds me of the discussion had the night before in my Digital Humanities class. It’s an even weirder day when I feel compelled to respond with a retweet. I blame the Luddites. The Luddites, 19th Century British weavers and textile workers, protested their loss of jobs by breaking apart the machinery that replaced them. Those participating in the
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