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The Pelham Puppets Humpty Dumpty is a vintage wooden string marionette produced by the British toy manufacturer Pelham Puppets. Based on the classic English nursery rhyme character, the puppet is designed to resemble an egg with distinct facial features and colorful clothing. It operates via a woode...

Pelham Puppets Jack is a marionette produced by the British company Pelham Puppets. The character belongs to a paired puppet set associated with a traditional English nursery-rhyme theme. Like other Pelham marionettes, it is a string-controlled figure made for manipulation as a toy or performance ob...

Humpty Dumpty is a British pantomime subject based on the nursery-rhyme character of the same name. Its central figure is conventionally represented as an oversized egg who falls from a wall and cannot be restored, reflecting the rhyme's ending. The character became established in Victorian-era popu...

Old Mother Hubbard is the name of a traditional English nursery rhyme and of pantomime productions based on it. The rhyme was published in 1805 and is associated with Sarah Catherine Martin; its opening situation concerns an old woman who goes to a cupboard and finds that her dog has no food. Pantom...

A British pantomime based on the nursery rhyme about a foolish character who meets a pieman at a fair; one of several nursery rhyme figures adapted for the Victorian stage.

Old King Cole is a traditional British pantomime subject based on the nursery rhyme about a cheerful king who calls for his pipe, bowl, and three fiddlers. Pantomime versions use the brief rhyme as a starting point for a larger comic stage story, often adding stock characters, music, audience partic...

A British pantomime based on the nursery rhyme about a shepherdess who loses her sheep; often combined with pastoral subjects in Victorian-era double-bill productions.

Mother Hubbard is a British pantomime tradition based on the nursery rhyme about an old woman and her dog. The rhyme was printed in 1805 as The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog, attributed to Sarah Catherine Martin, and later stage versions expanded the simple verse into comic plot...

Georgie Porgie is an English-language nursery rhyme recorded in nineteenth-century collections and known by the Roud Folk Song Index number 19532. Its familiar verse describes Georgie Porgie kissing girls, making them cry, and running away when children come out to play. Some reference works have li...

Hickory Dickory Dock is a British pantomime built around the English nursery rhyme in which a mouse runs up a clock. The rhyme was first recorded in 1744 in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, giving the pantomime a traditional literary source and a familiar central image. The title belongs to the comic...