![]() It's a really old-fashioned kind of humor, since comedy based on the hypocrisy of a priest who is drunk all the time might seem less amusing or acceptable to modern audiences. His drinking songs with King Richard I and his drunken fight with Athelstane as Athelstane is escaping from the Priory of Saint Botolph are supposed to make us laugh. As soon as Robin Hood knocks on his door to demand that he join their siege of Torquilstone, though, Friar Tuck enthusiastically joins in.įriar Tuck mostly functions as comic relief in the book. Posing as a hermit and a monk provides a cover for Tuck's less-than-holy activities, since he has an acceptable reason to spend all of his time in the forest. Otherwise, he likes a good fight as much as the next man, and he frequently puts on the green clothes of Robin Hood's men to rob people passing through the forest. But he still likes to pretend that he really is a religious man living in solitude and praying in the woods.Īs King Richard I slowly convinces the friar of his good humor and relaxed approach to poaching and drunkenness, we gradually figure out that the friar's "holiness" mainly consists of swearing frequently to English Saint Dunstan. He is extremely cagey about admitting that he drinks a ton and frequently eats deer that supposedly belongs to the local Norman elites. When we first meet him in the forest, he introduces himself to King Richard I (himself in disguise as the Black Knight) as the "Holy Clerk of Copmanhurst." He likes to live large, and his position as a holy man certainly isn't going to stop him. Like his boss Robin Hood, the friar of the outlaws goes by many names. Minor Characters Associated with Friar Tuck.Minor Characters Associated with the Tournament.Minor Characters Associated with Robin Hood.Minor Characters Associated with King Richard.Minor Characters Associated with Rebecca.Minor Characters Associated with the Knights Templar.Minor Characters Associated with Prince John.Minor Characters Associated with Ivanhoe.Minor Characters Associated with Front-de-Boeuf.Minor Characters Associated with Cedric. ![]() Minor Characters Associated with Bois-Guilbert.Minor Characters Associated with Prior Aymer.Minor Characters Associated with Athelstane.
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