Editing Yeoman (section)

=== Howard Pyle ===
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{{Main|The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood}}
[[Howard Pyle]]'s contribution to the Robin Hood revival of the 19th century was his richly illustrated children's book ''The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood''. Pyle is the author who first portrayed Robin as a kind-hearted outlaw who "robs from the rich to give to the poor".<ref name=lexico_RH/> Each chapter covered one of the Robin Hood tales and the chapter sequence was arranged to present a coherent narrative. The resulting storyline was reused in early films such as ''[[Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood]]'' and Errol Flynn's ''[[The Adventures of Robin Hood]]''.<ref name=2006_Chandler/>

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Pyle's visual and verbal depiction of the outlaw yeoman Robin Hood has become a 20th-century popular culture icon. Any resemblance to the yeoman of Gest, or with any possible historical persons who may have inspired the 15th–16th century ballads, is strictly coincidental. Pyle's storyline has been adapted to appeal to 20th century film audiences as a romanticized rousing action-adventure.