After Giacomo Meyerbeer's successful opera Robert le Diable (1831), neo-medievalists and occultists began to apply the name Robin Goodfellow to the Devil, with appropriately extravagant imagery.
After Giacomo Meyerbeer's successful opera Robert le Diable (1831) neo-medievalists and occultists began to apply the name Robin Goodfellow to the Devil with appropriately extravagant imagery