The Foresters: Robin Hood and Maid Marian

by Alfred Tennyson and Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson

Book Overview

Alfred Tennyson wrote his verse play about the famous English outlaw, and his last book in his lifetime, The Foresters: Robin Hood and Maid Marian, at the request of the America theatre manager Augustin Daly in 1892, when he was 82 years old. Daly, who had met Arthur Sullivan in California, asked him to write the music and Sullivan composed the nine short numbers which comprise the score. Sullivan probably undertook the work out of regard for Tennyson...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1410206491
• ISBN13: 9781410206497
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"