Robin Hood version of Robin Hood's life. In reaching his conclusion Ritson relied or gave weight to a number of unreliable sources, such as the Robin Hood plays of Anthony Munday, and the Sloane Manuscript. Nevertheless, Dobson and Taylor credit Ritson with having 'an incalculable effect in promoting the still continuing quest for the man behind the myth', and note that his work remains an 'indispensable handbook to the outlaw legend even now'. Ritson's friend Walter Scott used Ritson's anthology collection as a source for his picture of Robin Hood in Ivanhoe, written in 1818, which did much to shape the modern
Rabbit Hood shorts included as special features on the 2014 DVD release of Rankin/Bass Productions' animated version of "The Hobbit" (along with "Knight-mare Hare" and "Knighty Knight Bugs"), made possible by Warner Bros.' acquisition of much of the Rankin-Bass home video library. "Robin Hood Daffy" (1958), in which Daffy Duck played Robin Hood with Porky Pig as a Friar Tuck-like character. "Wagon Heels" (1945), another cartoon (also a Merrie Melodies cartoon) [but featuring Porky Pig instead of Bugs Bunny] which has a reference to "London Bridge Is Falling Down" (Sloppy Mo singing 'I know something I won't tell' to the tune of