By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott’s 1819 novel set in late twelfth-century England, has a claim to being the most influential novel of the entire nineteenth century. It was hugely popular, and remains so, with such figures as Tony Blair and Ho Chi Minh both declaring […]
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Literary Film Review: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) was one of two popular screen retellings of the Robin Hood legend in the early 1990s. The other was Tony Robinson’s gloriously anachronistic and funny children’s sitcom Maid Marian and Her Merry Men, which even featured several humorous […]
Five Fascinating Facts about Sir Walter Scott
Five fun facts about the life and work of Scottish author Sir Walter Scott 1. The word ‘glamour’ is first found in his work. ‘Glamour’ is a Scottish corruption of ‘grammar’ (‘corruption’ is the linguistic term for when one word morphs into another), and was introduced into English literature by […]