sentences:  The first record of a Robin Hood play being performed is in Exeter in 1426-27.The earliest surviving text of a Robin Hood play is dated c.1475 and entitled "Robyn Hod and the Shryff off Notyngham".The plays which perhaps have been most influential upon the Robin Hood legend as a whole are Anthony Munday's "The Downfall of Robert, Earle of Huntington" and "The Death of Robert, Earle of Huntingdon" (1597–98).