The Traitor of Sherwood Forest centres on the fictional Jane, a peasant who falls for Robin Hood’s legend. She swoons over him and turns into a part of his outlaw band, however begins to marvel if his heroic picture and the seductive Robin himself have led her astray. Kaufman’s Robin, neither hero nor villain, is true to the character’s origins. Within the ballads, she says, “He’s extremely subversive while you have a look at the way in which he goes up in opposition to individuals in energy, like kings, like the Aristocracy, just like the church. However he additionally, in each one of many ballads, both has a tragic finish or is a sufferer of his personal flaws.”
