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The
figure of Mother Goose is an imaginary author of a collection of fairy
tales and nursery rhymes often published as Mother Goose Rhymes. As a
character, she appears in one nursery rhyme. A Christmas pantomime
called Mother Goose is often performed in the United Kingdom. The
so-called "Mother Goose" rhymes and stories have formed the basis for
many classic British pantomimes. Mother Goose is generally depicted in
literature and book illustration as an elderly country woman in a tall
hat and shawl, a costume identical to the peasant costume worn in Wales
in the early 20th century, but is sometimes depicted as a goose (usually
wearing a bonnet).
Identity
Mother Goose is the name given to
an archetypal country woman. She is credited with the Mother Goose
stories and rhymes popularized in the 1700s in English-language
literature, although no specific writer has ever been identified with
such a name.
17th century English readers would have been
familiar with Mother Hubbard, a stock figure when Edmund Spenser
published his satire Mother Hubberd's Tale in 1590; as well as with
similar fairy tales told by "Mother Bunch" (the pseudonym of Madame
d'Aulnoy) in the 1690s. An early mention appears in an aside in a French
versified chronicle of weekly happenings, Jean Loret's La Muse
Historique, collected in 1650. His remark, comme un conte de la Mère Oye
("like a Mother Goose story") shows that the term was readily
understood. Additional 17th century Mother Goose/Mere l'Oye references
appear in French literature in the 1620s and 1630s.
In "The Real
Personages of Mother Goose" (1930), Katherine Elwes-Thomas submits that
the image and name "Mother Goose", or "Mère l'Oye", may be based upon
ancient legends of the wife of King Robert II of France, known as
"Berthe la fileuse" ("Bertha the Spinner") or Berthe pied d'oie
("Goose-Foot Bertha" ), who, according to Elwes-Thomas, is often
referred in French legends as spinning incredible tales that enraptured
children.[citation needed] Another authority on the Mother Goose
tradition, Iona Opie, does not give any credence to either the
Elwes-Thomas or the Boston suppositions.
Despite evidence to the
contrary, there are reports, familiar to tourists to Boston,
Massachusetts, that the original Mother Goose was a Bostonian wife of an
Isaac Goose, either named Elizabeth Foster Goose (1665–1758) or Mary
Goose (d. 1690, age 42) who is interred at the Granary Burying Ground on
Tremont Street. According to Eleanor Early, a Boston travel and history
writer of the 1930s and '40s, the original Mother Goose was a real
person who lived in Boston in the 1660s. She was reportedly the second
wife of Isaac Goose (alternatively named Vergoose or Vertigoose), who
brought to the marriage six children of her own to add to Isaac's ten.
After Isaac died, Elizabeth went to live with her eldest daughter, who
had married Thomas Fleet, a publisher who lived on Pudding Lane (now
Devonshire Street). According to Early, "Mother Goose" used to sing
songs and ditties to her grandchildren all day, and other children
swarmed to hear them. Finally, her son-in-law gathered her jingles
together and printed them.
John Newbery was once believed to have
published a compilation of English nursery rhymes entitled Mother
Goose's Melody, or, Sonnets for the cradle some time in the 1760s, but
the first edition was probably published in 1780 or 1781 by Thomas
Carnan, one of Newbery's successors. This edition was registered with
the Stationers' Company in 1780. However, no copy has been traced, and
the earliest surviving edition is dated 1784. The name "Mother Goose"
has been associated, in the English-speaking world, with children's
poetry ever since.
In 1837, John Bellenden Ker Gawler published a
book (with a 2nd-volume sequel in 1840) deriving the origin of the
Mother Goose rhymes from Flemish ('Low Dutch') puns.
In music,
Maurice Ravel wrote Ma mère l'oye, a suite for the piano, which he then
orchestrated for a ballet. There is also a song called "Mother Goose" by
progressive rock band Jethro Tull from their 1971 Aqualung album. The
song seems to be unrelated to the figure of Mother Goose since she is
only the first of many surreal images that the narrator encounters and
describes through the lyrics.
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Winnie-the-Pooh,
also called Pooh Bear, is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear
created by A. A. Milne. The first collection of stories about the
character was the book Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), and this was followed by
The House at Pooh Corner (1928). Milne also included a poem about the
bear in the children's verse book When We Were Very Young (1924) and
many more in Now We Are Six (1927). All four volumes were illustrated by
E. H. Shepard.
The Pooh stories have been translated into many
languages, including Alexander Lenard's Latin translation, Winnie ille
Pu, which was first published in 1958, and, in 1960, became the only
Latin book ever to have been featured on The New York Times Best Seller
list.
Hyphens in the character's name were dropped by Disney when
the company adapted the Pooh stories into a series of features that
became one of its most successful franchises. In popular film
adaptations, Pooh Bear has been voiced by actors Sterling Holloway, Hal
Smith, and Jim Cummings in English and Yevgeny Leonov in Russian.
A
live action adaptation of the film is currently in development with
screenwriter Alex Ross Perry on board to write the screenplay. The story
will focus on an adult Christopher Robin returning to the Hundred Acre
Wood.
Milne named the character Winnie-the-Pooh for a teddy bear
owned by his son, Christopher Robin Milne, who was the basis for the
character Christopher Robin. Christopher's toys also lent their names to
most of the other characters, except for Owl, Rabbit, and Gopher.
Gopher was added to the Disney version. Christopher Robin's toy bear is
now on display at the Main Branch of the New York Public Library in New
York City.
Christopher Milne had named his toy bear after Winnie,
a Canadian black bear he often saw at London Zoo, and "Pooh", a swan
they had met while on holiday. The bear cub was purchased from a hunter
for $20 by Canadian Lieutenant Harry Colebourn in White River, Ontario,
Canada, while en route to England during the First World War. He named
the bear "Winnie" after his adopted hometown in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
"Winnie" was surreptitiously brought to England with her owner, and
gained unofficial recognition as The Fort Garry Horse regimental mascot.
Colebourn left Winnie at the London Zoo while he and his unit were in
France; after the war she was officially donated to the zoo, as she had
become a much loved attraction there. Pooh the swan appears as a
character in its own right in When We Were Very Young.
In the
first chapter of Winnie-the-Pooh, Milne offers this explanation of why
Winnie-the-Pooh is often called simply "Pooh": But his arms were so
stiff ... they stayed up straight in the air for more than a week, and
whenever a fly came and settled on his nose he had to blow it off. And I
think – but I am not sure – that that is why he is always called Pooh.
In
the Milne books, Pooh is naive and slow-witted, but he is also
friendly, thoughtful, and steadfast. Although he and his friends agree
that he "has no Brain," Pooh is occasionally acknowledged to have a
clever idea, usually driven by common sense. These include riding in
Christopher Robin's umbrella to rescue Piglet from a flood, discovering
"the North Pole" by picking it up to help fish Roo out of the river,
inventing the game of Poohsticks, and getting Eeyore out of the river by
dropping a large rock on one side of him to wash him towards the bank.
Pooh
is also a talented poet, and the stories are frequently punctuated by
his poems and "hums." Although he is humble about his slow-wittedness,
he is comfortable with his creative gifts. When Owl's house blows down
in a storm, trapping Pooh and Piglet and Owl inside, Pooh encourages
Piglet (the only one small enough to do so) to escape and rescue them
all by promising that "a respectful Pooh song" will be written about
Piglet's feat. Later, Pooh muses about the creative process as he
composes the song.
Pooh is very fond of food, especially "hunny"
but also condensed milk and other items. When he visits friends, his
desire to be offered a snack is in conflict with the impoliteness of
asking too directly. Though intending to give Eeyore a pot of honey for
his birthday, Pooh can not resist eating the honey on his way to deliver
the present, and so instead gives Eeyore "a useful pot to put things
in". When he and Piglet are lost in the forest during Rabbit's attempt
to "unbounce" Tigger, Pooh finds his way home by following the "call" of
the honeypots from his house. Pooh makes it a habit to have "a little
something" around eleven o'clock in the morning. As the clock in his
house "stopped at five minutes to eleven some weeks ago," any time can
be Pooh's snack time.
Pooh is very social. After Christopher
Robin, his closest friend is Piglet, and he most often chooses to spend
his time with one or both of them. But he also habitually visits the
other animals, often looking for a snack or an audience for his poetry
as much as for companionship. His kind-heartedness means he goes out of
his way to be friendly to Eeyore, visiting him and bringing him a
birthday present and building him a house, despite receiving mostly
disdain from Eeyore in return.
After Slesinger's death in 1953,
his wife, Shirley Slesinger Lasswell, continued developing the character
herself. In 1961, she licensed rights to Walt Disney Productions in
exchange for royalties in the first of two agreements between Stephen
Slesinger, Inc. and Disney. The same year, A. A. Milne's widow, Daphne
Milne, also licensed certain rights, including motion picture rights, to
Disney.
Since 1966, Disney has released numerous animated
productions starring Winnie the Pooh and related characters. These have
included theatrical featurettes, television series, and direct-to-video
films, as well as the theatrical feature-length films The Tigger Movie,
Piglet's Big Movie, Pooh's Heffalump Movie, and Winnie the Pooh. --------------------------- Thanks
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