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In 1648, Colchester was a walled town with a castle and several churches and was protected by the city wall.

ДЇrom 1996, the website of the Colchester tourist board attributed the origin of the rhyme to a cannon recorded as used from the church of St Mary-at-the-Wall by the Royalist defenders in the siege of 1648. The link was nevertheless popularised by a children's opera All the King's Men by Richard Rodney Bennett, first performed in 1969.

#Youtube english rhymes series

The theory was part of an anonymous series of articles on the origin of nursery rhymes and was widely acclaimed in academia, but it was derided by others as 'ingenuity for ingenuity's sake' and declared to be a spoof. This was on the basis of a contemporary account of the attack, but without evidence that the rhyme was connected. Professor David Daube suggested in The Oxford Magazine of 16 February 1956 that Humpty Dumpty was a 'tortoise' siege engine, an armoured frame, used unsuccessfully to approach the walls of the Parliamentary-held city of Gloucester in 1643 during the Siege of Gloucester in the English Civil War. Punch in 1842 suggested jocularly that the rhyme was a metaphor for the downfall of Cardinal Wolsey just as Wolsey was not buried in his intended tomb, so Humpty Dumpty was not buried in his shell. In 1785, Francis Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue noted that a 'Humpty Dumpty' was 'a short clumsey person of either sex, also ale boiled with brandy' no mention was made of the rhyme. One, advanced by Katherine Elwes Thomas in 1930 and adopted by Robert Ripley, posits that Humpty Dumpty is King Richard III of England, depicted as humpbacked in Tudor histories and particularly in Shakespeare's play, and who was defeated, despite his armies, at Bosworth Field in 1485. There are also various theories of an original 'Humpty Dumpty'. The rhyme does not explicitly state that the subject is an egg, possibly because it may have been originally posed as a riddle. Poster advertising a pantomime version at the Olympic Theatre in New York 1868, starring George L. The rhyme is listed in the Roud Folk Song Index as No. As a character and literary allusion, Humpty Dumpty has appeared or been referred to in many works of literature and popular culture, particularly English author Lewis Carroll's 1871 book Through the Looking-Glass, in which he was described as an egg. The show ran from 1868 to 1869, for a total of 483 performances, becoming the longest-running Broadway show until it was surpassed in 1881 by Hazel Kirke. Fox in the pantomime musical Humpty Dumpty. Humpty Dumpty was popularised in the United States on Broadway by actor George L. Its origins are obscure, and several theories have been advanced to suggest original meanings. The first recorded versions of the rhyme date from late eighteenth-century England and the tune from 1870 in James William Elliott's National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs. He is typically portrayed as an anthropomorphic egg, though he is not explicitly described as such. Humpty Dumpty is a character in an English nursery rhyme, probably originally a riddle and one of the best known in the English-speaking world.