Fan Casting Alan a Dale in Robin Hood and the House of Plantagenet (TV-Series)

A melancholic noble and minstrel whose life has been hollowed out by the Sheriff’s greed. His connection to the woods isn’t born of politics, but of a desperate, forbidden love for the Sheriff’s daughter, Lady Christabel. When she is promised to the elderly and brutal Sir Trent as a political pawn, Alan is forced into the dirt of the forest, seeking the "Hood’s" intervention to save her from a living death. He serves as the group's cultured link to the Nottingham court, a man who knows the etiquette and the rot of the high-born world. While he provides vital intelligence on castle movements and noble alliances, his true mission is singular: the rescue of Christabel. For Alan, the rebellion is a chaotic necessity—a gamble in the mud that offers the only slim hope of reclaiming the woman the regime has stolen from him.