Classics Illustrated — Gilberton Publications
Issue: #2
Last valuation update: 2024-06-26
Ivanhoe (1819) was the first of Scott's novels to adopt a purely English subject and was also his first attempt to combine history and romance, which later influenced Victorian medievalism. Set at the time of the Norman Conquest, Ivanhoe returns from the Crusades to claim his inheritance and the love of Rowena and becomes involved in the struggle between Richard Coeur de Lion and his Norman brothe...
Creators: Sir Walter Scott, Malcom Kildale
Characters: Little John, King Richard the Lion-Hearted, Friar Tuck, Ivanhoe, Rebecca of York, Lady Rowena, Robin Hood, Wamba, Gurth, Cedric the Saxon, Brian de Bois-Guilbert