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Wise Men of Gotham
Wise Men of Gotham
William Wallace Denslow's illustrations for Three Wise Men of Gotham, from a 1901 edition of Mother Goose

Wise Men of Gotham is the early name given to the people of the village of Gotham, Nottinghamshire, in allusion to an incident where they supposedly feigned idiocy to avoid a Royal visit.

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"nursery rhyme" and "children's song" emerged in the 1820s, although this type of children's literature previously existed with different names such as Tommy...

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abused So have no more to do with me cuckoo's nest One of the tales of the Wise Men of Gotham tells how they built a hedge round a tree in order to trap...

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Gotham – first used by Washington Irving in his satirical periodical Salmagundi in November 1807 as an allusion to the tale of the Wise Men of Gotham...

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the unemphatic 'en, 'un." The Dog and Its Reflection Red herring Wise Men of Gotham Smith, A. C. (1874). "On Wiltshire Traditions, Charms and Superstitions"...

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for the Wise Men of Gotham story, a legendary incident where the village's residents feigned idiocy to prevent a royal visit from John, King of England...

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These stories often center on the "wise" men and their silly decisions, similarly to the English Wise Men of Gotham or the German Schildbürger. The jokes...

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figures of fun, and foolish countrymen were also popular (e.g., The Wise Men of Gotham). Other works were aimed at regional and rural audience (e.g., The...

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Mother Goose in Prose

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Three Wise Men of Gotham Little Bun Rabbit The book's last selection features a girl named Dorothy who can talk to animals—an anticipation of the Oz...

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most of them translated into German: Plague of Wine 1840, The World and Some Things One Can Find in It 1848–49, Reynard the Fox 1850, and Wise Men of Gotham...

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Arthur, Annales Cambriae also referencing Mordred, a rival, and Merlin, a wise mentor. Although these sources have been used as proof for Arthur's origins...

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Legends - England - Nottingham - Wise men of Gotham - Article Page 1". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-01-09. 1911 facsimile of a 1594 edition, on the Internet...

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Babington of East India Company translated them in English in 1822 and noted the similarity of them with the stories about the Wise Men of Gotham, concluding...

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Tales of the Three Wise Men of Gotham 1828 – The New Mirror for Travellers 1829 – Tales of the Good Woman, by a Doubtful Gentleman 1830 – Chronicles of the...

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of Leeds, which has a copy. Of the 30 songs in the collection, 13 were contributed by Tolkien: 1 "From One to Five", to the tune of "Three Wise Men of...

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