My wife and I do about 20 minutes of mindfulness meditation each evening, and last night while we were doing it with the sounds of Gregorian chants, my mind wandered (as it often does) and suddenly I was in a castle in the Middle Ages and I was Robin Hood, wearing green and carrying a bow and arrows while striding down a stone hallway. I wasn't just an actor portraying Robin Hood, I was Robin Hood. And it was great. But then later, I began to wonder how Robin could have shaved while living in Sherwood Forest... Or would he have shaved at all? A brief search of the Internet found that a large number of actors had played the Robin role in film and TV, with varying grooming styles.
For example:
Douglas Fairbanks (1922) - mustache, goatee
Errol Flynn (1938) - pencil mustache, goatee
John Derek (1950) - pencil mustache
Richard Todd (1952) - shaved
Richard Greene (TV 1955-59, film 1960) - shaved
Sean Connery (1976) - bearded
Kevin Costner (1991) - shaved but scrubby at times
Cary Elwes (1993) - mustache, goatee
Russell Crowe (2010) - trimmed beard
So I'm left still wondering and daydreaming about it. But I guess I probably would favor the Sean Connery approach, with no shave at all. Plus, I just like him the best.
How did Robin Hood shave?
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How did Robin Hood shave?
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Re: How did Robin Hood shave?
How did Robin Hood shave? Carefully, of course!
Re: How did Robin Hood shave?
I suspect that with Fairbanks and Flynn they wanted to evoke another 'stache & goatee-wearing scallywag, to make him look like a badass.
The rest just followed suit.
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The rest just followed suit.
For more learned discourse about shaving in the Medieval (and earlier) period, check out Stefans's Florilegium collection of usenet messages on the topic:
http://www.florilegium.org/files/PERSON ... g-msg.html
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Re: How did Robin Hood shave?
Welcome to SMF, seikhmusab!
(I'm pretty sure that Robin Hood didn't shave.)
- Murray
(I'm pretty sure that Robin Hood didn't shave.)
- Murray