Maid Marian

By: Thomas Love Peacock

Narrated by: Graham Scott, Alan Weyman, Denis Daly, Rachel May

Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock

Presented by Voices of Today

Narration by Graham Scott

Also featuring the voices of Alan Weyman, Denis Daly, and Rachel May.

Text prepared by Denis Daly and Alan Weyman.

Music for songs composed and arranged by Alan Weyman.

Maid Marian, first published in 1822, was the fourth novel by scholar and man of letters Thomas Love Peacock (1785 1866).

Unlike Peacock's other novels, Maid Marian has a substantial plot, based on the romantic legend of Robin Hood. As is usual with Peacock, the violence is presented in a rather humorous fashion and the characters indulge lavishly in eating and drinking. Beneath the veneer of this well-known and innocuous narrative, Peacock finds ample opportunity to satirize the foibles of church and secular government.

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