The Black Arrow (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- First Published: 1888
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Adventure
- Time of Work: Fifteenth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Adventure
- Subjects: History, Love or romance, Murder or homicide, Mistaken or secret identity, Betrayal, Social life, England or English people, War, Fifteenth century, Adventure, Outlaws, Battles, Wars of the Roses
- Locales: England
Places Discussed
*Tunstall Forest. Hardwood forest dotted with knolls and hollows and crossed by numerous dirt trails that lies in Suffolk, though the county is never named in the novel. The forest was larger in the fifteenth century than it is today. Since at least the time of the Robin Hood legend, woods have often played a romantic role in English literature. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, Tunstall Forest stands in for the Sherwood Forest of Robin Hood. The woods provide hideouts for the heroes, young Dick Shelton—the protagonist—and the honorable “outlaw” band...
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