-
buffoonery in A
Ryght Pithy,
Pleasaunt and
merie Comedie:
Intytuled Gammer Gurtons Nedle, was
first credited with its
authorship by
Isaac Reed in his 1782...
-
Gammer Gurton's Garland: or, The
Nursery Parn****us,
edited by the
literary antiquary Joseph Ritson, is one of the
earliest collections of
English nursery...
-
Humpty Dumpty up again". It was
published in 1810 in a
version of
Gammer Gurton's Garland. (Note:
Original spelling variations left intact.)
Humpty Dumpty...
- put them to bed. The
earliest printed version in
Joseph Ritson's
Gammer Gurton's Garland in 1784 has the co****r last line: She whipp'd all
their bums,...
-
forrest grew." The
modern cliché Valentine's Day poem can be
found in
Gammer Gurton's Garland (1784), a
collection of
English nursery rhymes published in London...
- the
Cathedral Woman of
Canterbury Ipswich Arts Theatre,
Ipswich Gamma Gurton's Needle Dame Chat
Ipswich Arts Theatre,
Ipswich Captain Pugwash Cannibal...
- old-fashioned view that
comedy began in
England in the 1550s with
Gammer Gurton's Needle and
Ralph Roister Doister is mistaken,
ignoring as it does a rich...
-
contraction of "godmother". Both
words are
found in the
comic play
Gammer Gurton's Needle,
printed in 1575 but
possibly written earlier. In this etymology...
- of Bath and Wells, once
thought to have
written an
early farce,
Gammer Gurton's Needle Doris Stokes (1920–1987),
spiritualist and
psychic medium William...
- twenty, my stomach's empty. A
version published five
years later in
Gammer Gurton's Garland (1810) was
titled "Arithmetick" and had the
following different...
