Hogarth's frontispiece reinforces what Fielding is attempting within The Tragedy of Tragedies by having the hero, Tom Thumb, unable to act as the two females take the dominant role and …

In Hogarth’s painting the children are performing Dryden’s The Indian Emperor (1665), a heroic tragedy that remained popular despite Fielding’s burlesque of the genre; but Tom Thumb was …

Princess Huncumanca and the Amazon Glumdalca, rivals for the love of Tom Thumb, clash. Glumdalca holds a candle to see how pretty/ugly Huncumunca is .

Tom Thumb is a character of English folklore. The History of Tom Thumb was published in 1621 and was the first known fairy tale printed in English.

It was published with a frontispiece by Hogarth. See Heroic Drama. From: Tom Thumb, a Tragedy in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature » Subjects: Literature — Literary …

4 p.l., 58 p. ; 20 cm. Originally published in 1730 in two acts under title: Tom Thumb, a tragedy. This item is from the Stockton Axson Collection of 18th Century British Drama, Woodson …

As for Tom Thumb itself, the play is not without its famous fans: Hogarth designed the frontispiece for the print edition; Jonathan Swift supposedly LOL’d, and both Frances Burney and Jane …

Jan 6, 2000 · This is the first posthumous edition: Fielding had died more than a decade before, but his name is still omitted. This is a moderately uncommon edition: ESTC online lists eleven …

Tom Thumb is a play written by Henry Fielding as an addition to The Author's Farce. It was added on 24 April 1730 at Haymarket. It is a low tragedy about a character who is small in both size …

Semantic Scholar extracted view of "The Tragedy of Tragedies; Or, the Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great;" by H. Fielding. Skip to search form Skip to main content Skip to account …