Robin Hood in popular culture the anonymous "Robin Hood: A Tale of the Olden Time" (1819), and a few months later "Ivanhoe" by Walter Scott, 1819. "Ivanhoe" was Scott's first novel where history and romance is combined. Robin Hood in this book is the saviour of the nation. The Upper classes need the working classes as much as the working classes rely on their 'betters'. Scott's tale is significant because it is the first time that Robin is presented as an Anglo-Saxon freedom fighter, a theme which many later Victorian Robin Hood novels would utilise. The next novel following Scott was Thomas Love Peacock's novella
According to Spike Milligan Bruce. "Robin Hood According to Spike Milligan" is a 1998 parody novel. Unlike other books in the series, Milligan did not parody any particular book about Robin Hood (although the majority of material parodies "The Adventures of Robin Hood" by Roger Lancelyn Green), but the whole legend of Robin Hood and the figures involved. The book portrays Robin Hood as short-tempered, Friar Tuck as a drunkard, and various other figures of the Robin Hood legend in bizarre yet humorous situations. "Treasure Island According to Spike Milligan" is a comic novel spoof of "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson. Published in