...was developed by Fielding and Carey. In Tom Thumb; A Tragedy (1730), afterwards called The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the...Corneille and such tragedies as Cato, Busiris and Fen ton's popular Mariamne (1723). The coarser burlesque of Fielding's Covent Garden Tragedy (1733)...

...London literary life. Other plays followed, including Fielding's best work in drama, The Tragedy of Tragedies, or The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great (1731). This has been justly described as 'one of the best burlesques everwritten '. In 1736 Fielding produced...

...Thumb,1 a Tragedy (1730), was at once the rage ; and in its enlarged and altered form, The Tragedy of Tragedies, or The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great (1731), it was not less acceptable, and was much imitated. It was now adorned with learned notes giving the...

...was developed by Fielding and Carey. In Tom Thumb; A Tragedy (1730), afterwards called The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great (1731), Fielding •« Cf. ante, Vol. V, pp. 298 ff. 3 Cf. Lounsbury, us, pp. 148-9. Fielding and Burlesque 93 (of whose...

...comic perspective by The Rehearsal (1671) of Buckingham and others, and by Fielding's The Tragedy of Tragedies; or the Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great (1731). to that passion in the playwright which confers central vitality upon the ranting characters; the latter...

...beloved of the king, but in love with Tom," as she is described in Henry Fielding's The Trafledy of / 7# y C}>gc GZn | A " x : #P 艽 F -; + The character of the giantess princess in Fielding's play was probably suggested by Glumdaklich in...

...mit zwei englischen Farcen: Aphra Behn: The Emperor of the Moon (1687) und Henry Fielding: Tragedy of Tragedies, or The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great (1731)] 80 BEISSNER, Friedrich: Hölderlins Übersetzungen aus dem Griechischen. Stuttgart 21961. 81 BEJBLfK,...

...Tragedian BREAN S. HAMMOND I Grizzle. Oh! Huncamunca, Huncamunca, oh! (Henry Fielding, The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, the Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great (1731), II.5) Even eighteenth-century scholars tend to know very little more about Thomson as a playwright...

...craze for opera and pantomime; but much more important is Tom Thumb (1730) enlarged as The Tragedy of Tragedies; or The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great (1731), a parody of Young's tumid tragedy Busiris. This deserves to rank with The Critic as a piece both humorous...