The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses

Author	Robert Louis Stevenson
Country	Scottish
Language	English
Genre(s)	Historical Adventure novel and a Romance.
Publisher	Charles Scribner's Sons (USA) & Cassell (UK)
Released	1888
Media Type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	344 (paperback edition)
ISBN	ISBN 0766194779 (paperback edition)

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The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses is an 1888 novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, which can be classed genre-wise as an historical adventure novel and a romance. It first appeared as a serial, 1883-1884, beginning in Young Folks; A Boys' and Girls' Paper of Instructive and Entertaining Literature, vol. XXII, no. 656 (Saturday, June 30, 1883)—Stevenson finished writing it by the end of that summer of 1883. Stevenson alludes to the time gap between the serialization and the publication as one volume in 1888 in his preface "Critic [parodying Dickens's "Cricket"] on the Hearth": "The tale was written years ago for a particular audience ...." 1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ... Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe; title page of 1719 newspaper edition A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... Motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (English: No one provokes me with impunity) Scotlands location within Europe Scotlands location within the United Kingdom Languages English, Gaelic, Scots Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ... Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. ... History is often used as a generic term for information about the past, such as in geologic history of the Earth. When used as the name of a field of study, history refers to the study and interpretation of the record of human societies. ... Adventure novels have adventure as a main theme. ... As a literary genre, romance refers to a style of heroic prose and verse narrative current in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. ... Serial is a term, originating in literature, for a format by which a story is told in contiguous installments in sequential issues of a single periodical publication. ... 1883 (MDCCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 184 days remaining. ... 1883 (MDCCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ... Charles Dickens was a prolific writer who was almost always working on a new installment for a story and rarely missed a deadline. ... The Cricket on the Hearth is a novel by Charles Dickens, written in 1845, after The Chimes. ...

Plot introduction

The Black Arrow tells the story of Richard (Dick) Shelton during the Wars of the Roses: how he becomes a knight, rescues his lady Joanna Sedley, and obtains justice for the murder of his father, Sir Harry Shelton. Outlaws in Tunstall Forest organized by Ellis Duckworth, whose weapon and calling card is a black arrow, cause Dick to suspect that his guardian Sir Daniel Brackley and his retainers are responsible for his father's murder. Dick's suspicions are enough to turn Sir Daniel against him, so he has no recourse but to escape from Sir Daniel and join the outlaws of the Black Arrow against him. This struggle sweeps him up into the greater conflict surrounding them all. The story of the Wars of the Roses is told in miniature by The Black Arrow. This novel consists of 79,658 words. York Lancaster For other uses see Wars of the Roses (disambiguation) The Wars of the Roses (1455–1485) is the name generally given to the intermittent civil war fought over the throne of England between adherents of the House of Lancaster and the House of York. ... York Lancaster For other uses see Wars of the Roses (disambiguation) The Wars of the Roses (1455–1485) is the name generally given to the intermittent civil war fought over the throne of England between adherents of the House of Lancaster and the House of York. ...

A crucial moment in the novel when Sir Oliver, Sir Daniel, and Dick Shelton are surprised by a black arrow in the Moat House refectory hall

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Plot Summary

In the reign of "old King Henry VI." and during the Wars of the Roses the story begins with the Tunstall Moat House alarm bell being rung to begin mustering troops for its absent lord Sir Daniel Brackley, who intends to join the Battle of Risingham toward its end. It is then that the "fellowship" known as "The Black Arrow" headquartered in Tunstall Forest begins to strike with its "four black arrows" for the "four black hearts" of Brackley and three of his retainers: Nicholas Appleyard; Bennet Hatch; and Sir Oliver Oates, the parson. The rhyme that is posted in connection with this attack gets the protagonist Richard (Dick) Shelton, ward of Sir Daniel, to become curious about the fate of his father Sir Harry Shelton. Having been dispatched to Kettley, where Sir Daniel was quartered, and sent to Tunstall Moat House by return dispatch, he also falls in with a fugitive from Sir Daniel, disguised as a boy, alias John Matcham, who in reality is Joanna Sedley, an heiress, kidnapped by Sir Daniel. Coincidentally Sir Daniel was intending to marry Joanna to Dick himself; and, in her male disguise, Joanna brings up the matter to Dick affording her the opportunity of feeling him out on the subject. Dick says he is not interested, but he does ask her if his intended bride is good-looking and of pleasant disposition. Henry VI (December 6, 1421 – May 21/22, 1471) was King of England from 1422 to 1461 (though with a Regent until 1437) and then from 1470 to 1471. ... York Lancaster For other uses see Wars of the Roses (disambiguation) The Wars of the Roses (1455–1485) is the name generally given to the intermittent civil war fought over the throne of England between adherents of the House of Lancaster and the House of York. ... The protagonist or main character is the central figure of a story. ...

While making their way through Tunstall Forest that covers the better part of Book 1 Joanna tries to persuade Dick to turn against Sir Daniel in sympathy with the Black Arrow outlaws, whose hideout they discover. The next day they are met in the forest by Sir Daniel himself disguised as a leper and making his way back to the Moat House after his side was defeated at a Battle of Risingham. Dick and Joan then follow Sir Daniel to the Moat House. Here Dick changes sides when he finds out that Sir Daniel is the real murderer of his father, and escapes injured from the Moat House. He is rescued by the outlaws of the Black Arrow with whom he throws in his lot for the rest of the story.

The second half of the novel, Books 3-5, tells how Dick rescues his true love Joanna from the clutches of Sir Daniel with the help of both the Black Arrow fellowship and the Yorkist army led by Richard Crookback, the future Richard III of England. Robert Louis Stevenson gets seafaring adventure inserted in chapters 4-6 of Book 3, and he puts a reference to one of the Tales of the Arabian Nights (i.e. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves) in Book 4, chapter 6. The story ends with Dick knighted by Richard Crookback, Sir Daniel killed by the last black arrow, and Dick and Joan married. Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was King of England from 1483 until his death and the last king from the House of York. ... Ali Baba (Arabic: علي بابا ) is a fictional character described in the adventure tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves which was added to the traditional collection of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights by its European transcriber, Antoine Galland, an 18th-century French orientalist who had heard it...

Title page of the first edition of 1888, US edition a few weeks before the UK edition

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Characters in "The Black Arrow"

• Richard Shelton – son of the late Sir Harry Shelton, heir of Tunstall. (the protagonist).
• Clipsby – a Tunstall peasant.
• Bennet Hatch – a middle aged retainer of Sir Daniel Brackley, and bailiff of the Tunstall hundred.
• Nicholas Appleyard – a septuagenarian veteran of the Battle of Agincourt (1415).
• Sir Oliver Oates – the local Tunstall parson and Sir Daniel's clerk.
• Sir Daniel Brackley – a self-serving, unscrupulous knight, who sides with either York or Lancaster when it suits him. (the antagonist).
• Joanna Sedley – also known as John Matcham, the ward of the Lord Foxham but kidnapped by Sir Daniel. (the heroine).
• Will Lawless – a "Friar Tuck" type of outlaw, member of the Black Arrow Fellowship, who has been many things in life, including a Franciscan friar.
• Ellis Duckworth – organiser of the Black Arrow Fellowship to avenge Harry Shelton, Simon Malmesbury, and himself. He was rumored to be an agent of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick.
• John Capper – a Black Arrow outlaw
• Goody Hatch – wife of Bennet Hatch
• Lord Foxham – a local Yorkist magnate
• Hawksley – Lord Foxham's retainer
• Earl Risingham – a local Lancastrian magnate
• Alicia Risingham – niece of Earl Risingham and friend, confidant, and companion of Joanna Sedley. She coquettishly poses herself for romantic consideration by Dick Shelton, who graciously declines in favor of his true love Joanna.
• Lord Shoreby – a local Lancastrian magnate
• Captain Arblaster – the owner of the ship The Good Hope, stolen by Shelton and the Black Arrow Fellowship
• Tom – Captain Arblaster's first mate
• Richard Crookback – Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester, future Richard III of England (a real historical person)
• Richard Catesby – Richard Crookback's retainer (a real historical person).

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Allusions/references to actual history, geography and current science

From the information given in the novel two time references for the two blocks of action that constitute the narrative can be pinpointed: May, 1460 and January, 1461. It is because Richard Crookback, Richard III of England, is presented as an adult active in the Wars of the Roses in January, 1461 that Stevenson points out in a footnote in Book 3, Chapter 6: "At the date of this story, Richard Crookback could not have been created Duke of Gloucester; but for clearness, with the reader's leave, he shall so be called." Richard was born in 1452, so he would have been merely 8 years old at the time of this story. A footnote in Book 5, Chapter 1 reads: "Richard Crookback would have been really far younger at this date [i.e. January, 1461]." Stevenson follows William Shakespeare in retrojecting Richard of Gloucester into an earlier period of the Wars of the Roses and portraying him as a dour hunchback—Stevenson: "the formidable hunchback" (Book 5, Chapter 2). (See Henry VI, part 2; Henry VI, part 3; and Richard III (play).) This characterization closely follows the Tudor Myth, a tradition that overly vilified Richard of Gloucester and cast the entire English Fifteenth Century as a bloody, barbaric chaos in contrast to the Tudor era of law and order. Look up May in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Events The first Portuguese navigators reach the coast of modern Sierra Leone. ... January is the first month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... Events February 2 - Battle of Mortimers Cross - Yorkist troops led by Edward, Duke of York defeat Lancastrians under Owen Tudor and his son Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke in Wales. ... Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was King of England from 1483 until his death and the last king from the House of York. ... January is the first month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... Events February 2 - Battle of Mortimers Cross - Yorkist troops led by Edward, Duke of York defeat Lancastrians under Owen Tudor and his son Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke in Wales. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... York Lancaster For other uses see Wars of the Roses (disambiguation) The Wars of the Roses (1455–1485) is the name generally given to the intermittent civil war fought over the throne of England between adherents of the House of Lancaster and the House of York. ... Kyphosis in the sense of a deformity is the pathologic curving of the spine, where parts of the spinal column lose some or all of their lordotic profile. ... The play we know as King Henry VI Part II was originally known as The First Part of the Contention betwixt the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster. ... Henry VI Part III is the third of William Shakespeares plays set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England, and prepares the ground for one of his best-known and most controversial plays: the tragedy of King Richard III (Richard III of England). ... The Life and Death of King Richard III is William Shakespeares version of the short career of Richard III of England, who receives a singularly unflattering depiction. ... The Tudor Myth is the tradition in English history, historiography and literature that cast the period of the Wars of the Roses as well as the entire 15th Century in England as a dark age of anarchy and bloodshed. ... Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was King of England from 1483 until his death and the last king from the House of York. ... (14th century - 15th century - 16th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 15th century was that century which lasted from 1401 to 1500. ... Allegory of the Tudor dynasty (detail), attributed to Lucas de Heere, ca 1572: left to right, Philip II of Spain, Mary, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Elizabeth The Tudor period usually refers to the historical period between 1485 and 1558, especially in relation to the history of England. ...

Curiously, the 1948 film portrays Richard Gloucester in a more favorable light than in the novel, somewhat anticipating the work of Paul Murray Kendall to rehabilitate him (Kendall, Richard III, 1956). When Gloucester is told he is "more than kind," he replies jokingly that such rumors would ruin his [bad] "reputation": the revision of the Tudor Myth? The Tudor Myth is the tradition in English history, historiography and literature that cast the period of the Wars of the Roses as well as the entire 15th Century in England as a dark age of anarchy and bloodshed. ...

The Battle of Shoreby, a fictitious battle that is the main event of Book 5, is modeled after the First Battle of St Albans in the Wars of the Roses. This battle in history as in the novel is a victory for the House of York. Combatants House of York House of Lancaster Commanders Richard, Duke of York, Richard, Earl of Warwick Edmund, Duke of Somerset Strength 3,000 2,000 Casualties Unknown 300 The First Battle of St Albans was the first battle of the Wars of the Roses and was fought on May 22... York Lancaster For other uses see Wars of the Roses (disambiguation) The Wars of the Roses (1455–1485) is the name generally given to the intermittent civil war fought over the throne of England between adherents of the House of Lancaster and the House of York. ...

Robert Louis Stevenson indicates that Tunstall of The Black Arrow is a real place by writing in the Prologue: John Amend-All: "Tunstall hamlet at that period, in the reign of old King Henry VI., wore much the same appearance as it wears today." In south-east Suffolk, England, 18 miles NE of Ipswich, less than 10 miles from the North Sea a "Tunstall" is located with an accompanying forest. The similarity of place-names near this Tunstall to place-names in the novel also suggest that this is Stevenson's Tunstall: Kettley is Kettleburgh in actuality, Risingham is Framlingham, and Foxham is Farnham, Suffolk. The identities of Shoreby-on-the-Till and Holywood are probably Orford and Leiston respectively. Orford is on the North Sea and has a road going to the northwest to Framlingham (the "highroad from Risingham to Shoreby"), and Leiston is also on the North Sea with a medieval abbey like Holywood of the novel. The River Till, which figures largely in Book 1 of the novel, would then be the River Deben in actuality. The River Deben flows near Kettleburgh. Suffolk (pronounced SUF-fk) is a large traditional and administrative county in the East Anglia region of eastern England. ... Ipswich is a Borough which is the county town of Suffolk in East Anglia, England, and a local government district on the estuary of the River Orwell. ... The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between the coasts of Norway and Denmark in the east, the coast of the British Isles in the west, and the German, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts in the south. ... Map sources for Framlingham at grid reference TM2863 Framlingham is a market town in East Suffolk, England. ... Orford can refer to: Orford, New Hampshire, United States Orford, Warrington, United Kingdom Orford, Suffolk, United Kingdom the location of Orford castle and nearby Orford Ness Orford, Tasmania, Australia This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Map sources for Leiston at grid reference TM4462 Leiston is a town in East Suffolk county in East Anglia in the United Kingdom, near Saxmundham and Aldeburgh, about 2½ miles from the seacoast. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times. ... An abbey (from the Latin abbatia, which is derived from the Syriac abba, father), is a Christian monastery or convent, under the government of an Abbot or an Abbess, who serve as the spiritual father or mother of the community. ...

The name of the main character Richard Shelton and his inheritance, Tunstall, were the name and title of an actual historical personage, Sir Richard Tunstall. He, as a Lancastrian and ardent supporter of King Henry VI of England, held Harlech Castle against the Yorkists through most of the 1460s when Edward IV of England ruled. In contrast, Richard Shelton, who becomes the knight of Tunstall at the end of The Black Arrow, is a staunch Yorkist. Lancastrian is an adjective describing: A resident of one of the many places named Lancaster. ... Henry VI (December 6, 1421 – May 21/22, 1471) was King of England from 1422 to 1461 (though with a Regent until 1437) and then from 1470 to 1471. ... The main gatehouse of Harlech Castle. ... The House of York was a dynasty of English kings. ... Edward IV (April 28, 1442 – April 9, 1483) was King of England from March 4, 1461 to April 9, 1483, with a break of a few months in the period 1470–1471. ... The silver Anglia knight, commissioned as a trophy in 1850, intended to represent the Black Prince. ...

Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

The Black Arrow has been adapted for film and television several times, including a 1911 film short starring Charles Ogle, a 1948 film starring Louis Hayward, a 1984 film starring Oliver Reed and Benedict Taylor, a Russian film Chyornaya strela 1985, a 1951 two-part British TV serial starring Denis Quilley, a 1968 seven-part Italian TV production entitled La freccia nera, and a British TV series running from 1972-1975 starring successively Robin Langford and Simon Cuff as Richard Shelton during its run. 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... Charles Ogle is: Charles Ogle (1798 - 1841), U.S. Congressman Charles Ogle (1775-1858), British Admiral Charles Stanton Ogle (1865-1940), American silent film actor This is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... Louis Hayward, born Seafield Grant, (March 19, 1909-February 21, 1985), was a British actor born in Johannesburg, South Africa. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Oliver Reed (February 13, 1938 – May 2, 1999) was an English actor known for his macho image on and off screen. ... Benedict Taylor (born 18 April 1960 in London, UK) is a British actor. ... This article is about the year. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Denis Quilley (December 26, 1927 - October 5, 2003) was a British theatre, television and film character actor who was long associated with the Royal National Theatre. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1972 calendar). ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... Robin Langford is a British actor, best known for his recurring role as Veit Rennert in the 1970s BBC television series Secret Army. ...

Trivia

Stevenson did not like his Black Arrow, referring to it as "tushery" with reference to his use of archaic English dialogue. For the planned fourteen-volume Edinburgh edition of his works, Stevenson indicated that he did not want to write an introduction to The Black Arrow—his wife Fanny, however, did so for the 1905 Biographical Edition of his works. The Black Arrow is in good company as Stevenson also did not like his The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (see below: links to the two volumes of his correspondence). The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Edinburgh (pronounced ), Dùn Èideann () in Scottish Gaelic, is the second-largest city in Scotland and its capital city. ... The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. ...

The Black Arrow is also the title of a 2005 novel by Vin Suprynowicz.

Vin Suprynowicz is a libertarian columnist who lives in Las Vegas and writes for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. ...

Release details

• 1888, USA, Charles Scribner's Sons ?, Pub date ? ? 1888, Hardback first edition
• 1888, UK, Cassell ?, Pub date ? ? 1888, Hardback
• 2005, USA, Kessinger Publishing ISBN 0766194779 , Pub date 30 April 2005, paperback

Sources, references, external links, quotations

• Project Gutenberg etext of The Black Arrow at Project Gutenberg
• Project Gutenberg etext of volume one of Robert Louis Stevenson's correspondence in which he speaks of The Black Arrow as "tushery" at Project Gutenberg
• Project Gutenberg etext of volume two of Robert Louis Stevenson's correspondence in which he discusses The Black Arrow at Project Gutenberg